I lift weights and am very strong. I will reveal my age (old) and size (tiny) and my feats of physical prowess!
Ogre Enchanted
All my books involve research, even the fairy tales.
I love the Middle Ages.
I went back to school for an MFA in poetry when I was sixty-five, and I’ve published a book of poems for adults, and I still write poems for grownups.
I’m studying Portuguese, and the term for a blender is varinha magica –which translates literally to magic wand. This is the language for me!
Alas, I don’t believe in fairies or elves. The only magic I believe in is writing, because all the mysterious forces of the universe are needed to bring a story together.
My father wanted to be a writer but didn’t pursue his dream, and my mother wrote three-act plays in verse for her sixth-grade students to perform.
My favorite part of writing is revising.
I adore grammar, and I love the big English language, with all its synonyms. For example, there are a jillion ways to say crazy, like nuts, psycho, loony, and many more.
My father had a stepmother who acted like any fairy tale evil stepmother. She put him, an older brother, and her own son in an orphanage when their father died. My father grew up in the orphanage.
I love to fool my readers in a story, and I love to make them laugh.