On your nightstand now:
Love's Glory: Re-Creations of Rumi by Andrew Harvey
Favorite book when you were a child:
The Nancy Drew series
Your top five authors:
Emmet Fox, Deepak Chopra, M. Scott Peck, Robert D. Hare and early James Patterson
Book you've faked reading:
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Book you are an evangelist for:
Power Through Constructive Thinking by Emmet Fox
Book you've bought for the cover:
Snakes in Suits by Robert D. Hare and Paul Babiak
Book that changed your life:
Key to Yourself by Venice J. Bloodworth
Favorite line from a book:
"You must be willing to die daily."--Emmet Fox
Book you most want to read again for the first time:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Why we should read books:
One well-written sentence can alter a person's life and open up possibilities they didn't even know existed.
What drives you to write:
Recovering from a 15-year drug addiction, divorced parents and withstanding hundreds of traumas and dramas. It has challenged me to become an expert on the underbelly of the human psyche, the shadow self and all its complexities.