This is a new feature I'm trying out. When I get questions — about anything — I'm going to try to answer them on Wednesday. :)

So here's the second one for the feature from a lovely fan:

Do you allow your family to read your stories before you send them out to be published?

Actually my husband (who is dubbed Hero Material) line edits, so yes.

But my parents and sibling do not read my stories. So thankfully I can write whatever I want (sex and/or violence) without worrying about what my mom or dad's going to think.

I think Mom wants to read my books — she always asks me for a copy. But with her being an immigrant, it's not easy for her to read full-length novels written for adults. I have shorter works, but they're paranormal. Unfortunately, those are even more difficult for non-native speakers due to all the made-up words.

If have any questions about me, my writing, books, characters or anything else, feel free to drop me a line by leaving me a comment, using the contact form or via Facebook or Twitter. I reserve the right not to answer if the topic happens to be politics or religion. But anything else is more or less fair game. Thanks! :)

This is a new feature I'm trying out. When I get questions — about anything — I'm going to try to answer them on Wednesday. :)

So here's the first one for the feature from a lovely fan:

When did you start writing?

I started writing when I was in elementary school. But back then I only wrote bad poems about goldfish. Don't ask me why goldfish. I've never owned a fish in my life. :)

When I was in junior high school, I wrote really really bad emo-angst drivel. I thought they were brilliant at the time, but looking back on it now, it's obvious I was delusional. There was no conflict whatsoever…just two really rich and beautiful boys and a girl — yes a love triangle! ;) — angsting for 100+ pages then the story ended when the girl died of some horrible disease like consumption. And I wrote the same story over and over again with different character names and settings.

It wasn't until I was twenty-five that I decided to write commercially. That's when I started studying craft, points of view, character development and so on. I also studied the market and publishing contracts, and read widely to see which genre I liked the best and wanted to write in. I started writing contemporary romance, then deviated to urban fantasy and other things, then came back to contemporary romance. No, I don't ever plan to write more poems about goldfish. :)

If have any questions about me, my writing, books, characters or anything else, feel free to drop me a line by commenting to this post or using the contact form or via Facebook or Twitter @nadialee. I reserve the right not to answer if the topic happens to be politics or religion. But anything else is more or less fair game. Thanks! :)