Charissa Stastny hails from Las Vegas, Nevada, but has never pulled the handle of a slot machine and can't shuffle cards to save her life. She has envisioned herself as an author since the 4th grade when she wrote the creative work, The Creature from McGool, and went on in shame to pen some cheesy romance scenes as a teenager. Now she has matured somewhat and is a member of the Idaho Writer's Guild and tries hard not to spread too much cheese around in her words. She graduated from Brigham Young University and resides in Idaho's Treasure Valley with her husband, four children and lazy Golden R...