I've wanted to be a writer ever since I could hold a pencil and understood what a book was, and I never wanted to be anything else. I started getting paid to write when I was 21 and have written just about everything--press releases, short stories, novels, how-to books, dialogue, outlines and episodes for daytime and primetime TV, film treatments and screen adaptations of novels, magazine articles and celebrity interviews. I've ghostwritten screenplays, novelizations of screenplays and autobiographies for corporate moguls. One of my books, Rituals (Dell), became the basis of the first continuing dramatic TV series produced specifically for syndication and my TV credits include multiple episodes of Fantasy Island and Days of Our Lives.I most enjoy writing novels (especially historicals), screenplay adaptations of novels, and most recently a new YA supernatural romance-adventure series, The Tracks, which includes Dark Territory (July, 2011) and Ghost Crown (January 2012) for HCI Teens.I would like to do more YA supernatural series and more historical romances, and I'm intrigued by steampunk, string theory, UFOs and fringe science and would like to explore projects in those areas. My many years as a writer-for-hire have taught me that it's really important, however, to write what people want to read, so I'm completely adaptable to whatever the market is currently dictating.