Strandt, Laura

I love books, plain and simple. After devouring them for decades and telling stories to myself for years, I decided to take up the NaNoWriMo challenge in 2006 to try my hand at actually writing things down.Dave, my cousin/best friend/partner in crime for the last 36 years, then spent our two-week vacation to the Grand Canyon reading it.Fast forward to 2012. I still love books and thanks to NaNoWriMo, I have written six more (so far).I'm a children's librarian by day (and some evenings) but by night (and lunch hour), I am a writer. It's totally the most perfect thing in the world: deadlines, wr...