Lark O'Neal is the author of RANDOM and STOKED, the first two books in the New Adult romance series Going the Distance. Look for Epic and Brilliant in spring and summer 2014 She is also the author of the Young Adult serial novel The OtherLand Chronicles, which will begins with MIRROR, published April 8, 2014. She has tended bar and waited tables, dispensed drugs to schizophrenics, loaded trucks, answered phones in a call center and written for a newspaper, but the only thing she ever really wanted was to write novels. She has traveled widely and has fallen in love with a number of places along the way, including New Zealand and northern Spain, and has a special fondness for England, where her husband lived until he came to Colorado and discovered the sun shines all the time. Now he sighs when they leave the sunshine to visit his roots and she sighs when they leave the rainy English countryside. When she's not wandering the world, Lark loves Zumba, photography, and the many animals who have insisted she take them in. She has won seven RITA awards and writes romances in many arenas and writes full time from Colorado.