Mum, aunt, sister, churchgoing United Methodist, writer of porn.

In that order.

Interests
Reading, reading, reading, and also, reading. Books.

Competitive (only) shooting (Glock pistols), counted cross-stitch, knitting, gardening, floristry, and books. 

Books. Did I mention books? I'm a "sniff the paper" kind of girl, so I collect first edition first printing (first/first) signed editions of books by First Nation and Pacific NW/Lower Mainland authors, and first/first editions of books published pre-1910, with an emphasis on nonfiction (medicine and science reference texts). 

Modern books (see below) and random first/first, signed or unsigned editions of Twain, Dickens, Mary Shelley, all of whom were brilliant and engaged in a sort of three way match of wit.

I fell into collecting books at a very young age, and my collection is ever-evolving, as I am extraordinarily adept at tripping and falling over valuable and rare books and ephemera, both literally and figuratively.

No book in my collection has been purchased for >USD$250.

Fun facts!

Oldest:

1544 copy of Dante Alighieri's La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy). Illuminated, pages composed of ink on vellum, cover heavy but soft leather (unknown origin, probably lamb) inlaid with gold and silver.

Rarest:

1914 first/first copy of Roosevelt's Through the Brazilian Wilderness, signed by both Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit Roosevelt. The latter is notable for having saved his father's life multiple times during the 1913-14 Roosevelt-Rondon scientific expedition--while stricken with malaria.

1960 first/first copy of Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, with a flat signed note addressed and signed by the author to an unknown individual. Book is in NF condition, unread, and I so wish I knew why--but that's part of the charm.

Side Note: If you've not already read Nicholson Baker's Vox, go. Now. Read.

Favorite Books
Through The Brazilian Wilderness; A Yellow Raft In Blue Water; Into Thin Air; Dominion; Passage To Juneau; Vox; U & I; The Size of Thoughts; The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat; Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania; Unbroken; A Widow For One Year; A Confederacy of Dunces; Lincoln; Catch-22; Schindler's List; Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust; (misconceptions); Indian Killer; The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven; The Business of Fancy Dancing; Under The Banner Of Heaven; 1861: The Civil War Awakening; God Is Not Great; The Hunt For Red October; Cadillac Desert; Radium Girls: The Dark Secret of America's Shining Women; Into Thin Air, Into the Wild, The Historian (Kostova); The Swan Thieves; The Lovely Bones; Lucky; the entire Harry Potter series....the list goes on, and on, and on.

Favorite Authors
Krakauer, Raban, Alexie, Dorris, Roosevelt, Ondaatje, Doig, Rowling, Erik Larson, Nicholson Baker, Naomi Wolf, Hitchens, Clancy, Sacks, Gould, Kearns Goodwin, Dahl, Sebold, Kostova, Peter Stark, Matthiessen...the list goes on.

Favorite Movies
The Harry Potter movies; The Hunt For Red October; Taken; Ocean's Eleven; Field of Dreams; Bull Durham; Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them; Run Silent, Run Deep; Crimson Tide; Indiana Jones and The Lost Ark; Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade; The Killing Fields; Hotel Rwanda; Major League (yes, really); Zodiac; All The President's Men; The English Patient...not much of a moviegoer but these round out my list of movies I can see over and over again.

Favorite TV Shows 

None, not now. Random out of sequence episodes of "Doctor Who" on my phone, generally while hanging upside down. Ask me how!

Favorite Music
Widely varied taste in music...pretty much everything but metal.