KelinaJ

ABOUT

Location

Escanaba

Born	October 1970

Gender

Female

Member

Standard

Joined

June 2006

Interests

Reading, writing, movies, hand-crafting (many varieties)

Kelina lives for escaping into worlds of the imagination, both realistic and fantastic. She loves to share her tales and is very glad to have found a place to do just that. Her ultimate writing goal is to learn to twist a plot until it screams in both agony and ecstasy.

Kelina used to live in a land called the Copper Country, where mining copper was the only industry that once mattered. The mines are all abandoned now, but the communities still survive. In the winter, the +250" of snow offer planty of time to twist plots, once the 4-foot banks the plow leaves in front of her house are shoveled, that is. In the all-too-brief summer, she tries to write outside when it's warm enough, unless it's mosquito season, which is most of the summer. Which in that case, once it exceeds 70 deg. F outside, she opens the windows in her house and pretends she's outside. Where else can one live where there aren't any earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, mudslides, flooding, or other major natural disasters? Kelina says, "I'll take the lake-effect snow any day, thank you very much."

Now she lives in the land of thick air and flat land.

And now she's just a little south of Snowland on the shores of Lake Michigan. Ain't moving around grand?

Kelina tries to be honest in her reviews, and offers all criticisms in as constructive and clear a manner as possible. She hopes others will be as helpful.

Kelina's profile image is a photo she took of the full moon in August 2008 outside her house. "Auto-focus doesn't play nice in night shots but sometimes it does produce some interesting effects."

You're invited to follow her Rants & Ruminations on her blog at www.myspace.com/kelinaj.