Blonde ambition is the name of my game. Believe me, I've tried brunette ambition, and it just doesn't sound the same. Not until I became blonde did people begin to take my passion seriously, and as an aside, it is true; blondes do have more fun. I'm a writer first by hobby, then by trade. Been at it since I was nine years old. In a box in my closet resides a tattered paperback journal that I bought at a garage sale for a quarter, interestingly adorned with a young couple exchanging roses in one of those soft blur photography filters. Between the covers of that ridiculous journal exists my first masterpiece. The day I decided to become a famous author, inspired by Beverly Cleary and Ann M. Martin, I composed my very first "book" entitled "Diary of a Liar Child." Since it was already in book form, I gave my printing a press name, which I appropriately scrawled on the inner cover and vowed that Purple Unicorn Press, or P.U.P., would be the company through which I published all future writings. Represented by a cartoon dog with a unicorn head, P.U.P. was primed to be Samantha Rodwell's exclusive publisher.

After the release of "The Unbelievable Life of a Sixth Grade Student", I shifted gears for a bit and began to really enjoy poetry. Writing poetry turned into writing lyrics and writing lyrics turned into writing music and writing music turned into writing ads looking for musicians, and that opened a whole bunch of doors that I never thought I'd even knock on, much less walk through.

When I'm not writing, I'm thinking of something to write about and if the idea is marketable. When I'm not doing that, I'm either snuggled up under the covers with a dog who thinks a king size bed is actually big enough for her massive mutt body while trying to read fun stuff on my phone, being careful not to let it fall on my face, or I'm giving what I call an honest try at learning the mechanics of my son's favorite video games so I can say we have at least one thing in common. How does one operate a first person shooter game though, really?

If I had access to a pool, I'd swim every day to satisfy the Pisces cusp in me. And if I didn't have early onset arthritis, yet had access to a boxing ring, Mike Tyson would....ah never-mind.

Point is, I know I'm a pretty decent writer, but I needed an instrument of confidence to give me a boost into a world where it pays to be taken seriously. That instrument of confidence just happened to come in a box. :)