Who am I?

 

If I told you my real name you might find me very ordinary. You'd file me away perhaps without a second thought or worse yet lose the ability to recollect my name should we cross paths again. How do I maintain a level of mysteriousness with you? Provoke an inquiry, sustain a conversation, and ask you to remember my name if I do not give you reason to be curious?

 

 

A beautiful quote by a famous mind that describes my sentiments on the name I share with you now: Bitten Twice.

 

Behind the name I am quite ordinary yet never boring, so I am told. We all want to be unique, special even; and still in my family my name appears to be very common and reoccurring very often in a few variations. My real name is so short with letters that repeat in the first and surname that while I answer to it and love it on others, I’m not too partial to it. As a matter of fact in High School, I recall being asked to give my real name when a substitute was filling in for a teacher. Perhaps my real name is just as unbelievable as the one I offer to you now? So I redefined myself with a name, distinguishing my writing half from the societal normalcy of who I am expected to be. No I don’t have a split personality; I just like my day job. 

 

I am a single mother of two, who is courageously in love with one man, and together as one family we care for two dogs. Within my lifetime If you believe that there are six continents I can then say that I have lived on two; if you believe there are seven I’ll have to admit to being on three.

 

Digressing - it is said that a man without a compass has a tendency to walk in circles. This seems to be the case for my life which began in South America, traipsed into Europe, and although it is not over I am currently in North America loving life in sunny South Florida.

 

I first fell in love with the mysteriousness of the vampire. From the depths of the shadows the lore drew me in. The pull of the moon shed light on the werewolf. I have always been fascinated with the lunar phases, but found the werewolf to be so extreme. In many cases the werewolf is often depicted as irrational and incapable of logical thought. As with vampires, I had to believe that even werewolves must have an alternate side. A demon according to the bible is child of an angel and a mortal. It seems they should have a chance too? Don’t we all visit the idea of whether we take after our mothers or our fathers? I love the idea of blending worlds, planes, and religions. The latter being a subject that I can converse on for eons, I’ll break it down into two statements.

1. One Love

2. I believe everyone has a path that is defined by individual choices

 

Ooh, how did the conversation get so serious?

 

My second point is reflected in my characters. How do you define good vs. evil? A demon may not be who she seems but then again neither may the angel.

 

I began writing since I was able to grip a crayon. I was fortunate enough to be exposed to musical instruments and the arts which sparked my creativity. In my childhood I never really finished any of the writing that I started, reading remained an intense passion. I could often be found buried under a pile of books reading my way out. During the writer’s strike of 2007, while I was missing my then favorite TV shows Blood Ties and Moonlight, I picked my laptop in earnest. The concept of Alexander Macedo was formed and in just a couple of months I had tapped out a novel. I don’t remember sleeping much, but I never felt so satisfied in my life. I wrote several short stories and another full length novel. Around 2009 I began to wonder how many I would write and what I would do with them. I didn’t put my rear in gear until my father passed at the end of 2009. With my compass in hand, I charted my course to where I wanted to be. The manuscripts went to the editor and all is a blur from that point on.