She made “improvements.”

At age 12, reading Stephen King’s The Stand for the first time, one memorable summer, it occurred to her that people really did write books for a living. That’s when she decided to become an author.

Megan began writing short fantasy, horror, and science fiction before graduating to
novel-length romances. In 1998 as a stay-home mom, Megan took up writing in earnest, attending her first writing conference and getting her first request for a full manuscript. In 2002 she saw her first book in print, and she hasn’t stopped since.

Published in almost every genre of romance fiction, Megan also writes fantasy, science fiction, women’s fiction, horrifyingly awful screenplays, and continues to occasionally dabble in horror.

Megan’s goal is to continue writing the kind of books she’d like to read. She spends too much time playing the Sims. Her dream is to have a movie made of every one of her novels, starring herself as the heroine and Keanu Reeves as the hero. Megan lives in the deep, dark woods with her husband and two monsters…er…children.

Tell us a little about the kinds of things you write.
Under my real name I write mainstream, romantic and erotic fiction as well as short horror. My current project, The Resurrected, is an indie release with six parts released to date and more to come. I also write young adult horror under the pen name Em Garner. Velvet is about a world in which contaminated diet drinks leave a large portion of the population suffering from uncontrollable rage — causing the government to not only slaughter large numbers of civilians before realizing they are not, in fact, zombies. Eighteen months later, the Contaminated are being returned to their families complete with lobotomizing collars that keep their homicidal urges under control, but when a new wave of contamination looms, everything begins to fall apart again. It will be released in January 2013 from Egmont books, and I’m very excited!

What was your most recent publication?
My most recent release was my indie short, The Resurrected Part Six. With each part acting as a complete short story yet creating an overall story arc, I’m really enjoying discovering and telling the stories of new sets of characters (some who show up in later stories too!) Part Six features two characters I really like a lot and can’t wait to feature in Part Seven.

Which grammatical error do you make most often that you wish you didn’t?
Hmm. I can’t do that/which. I just can’t.

What #1 piece of advice would you give to a new writer?
Nothing you write is gold the first time a