I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

I am from the bush. The bush did not define me. I did not stay in the bush, but I never forgot where I came from.

I am a former newspaper reporter turned church secretary turned vampire novelist. I wrote my first complete novel, 'Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs,' at night while I was working as the receptionist for a Baptist church. That was an interesting conversation with the pastor.

No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

When it came to the music that we produced, I am pretty happy with what we did.

I came to America to make it my home, and I did.