• She has the lady-writer's cliched affinity for cats.
• She sews, albeit pretty badly.
• She sometimes talks to squirrels, but they mostly refuse to answer.
• Her favorite color is red.
• Her favorite food is take-out.
• She loves plants and flowers, but for some reason, they tend to die under her care.
• Before becoming a fiction writer, she held such illustrious jobs as a page in the public library, where she and the other pages often had book cart races behind the stacks, a server in a fine restaurant called "Stuff Yer Face" and a copywriter for a "collectibles" company, where she waxed poetic about such treasures as porcelain fairies, Pooh bear picture frames and swivel-hipped Elvis ornaments.
