Hello hello!!!
My name is Elizabeth (Izzy for short)!
I began my writer’s journey at a young age, writing, illustrating and binding a ten page ‘novel’ when I was twelve years old.
I’d always been told that when you grow up, you can only do one thing. You can’t be good at lots of things – only one! So I decided that I would be a writer, and writing has always been a part of me.
I primarily wrote poetry, especially in high school. Everything was poetry back then. My Creative Writing class meant the world to me (thanks Mr. Lang) and I wrote my first full novel in 2007 that will never see the light of day (lol!)
After high school, I gave up my dream of becoming an author to pursue dancing and to join a professional ballet company. Again, I couldn’t be good at dancing and writing, so I picked dance. I loved dancing, but after two years dancing professionally, I was dropped out of a lift and had to retire at the ripe ‘ole age of 23!
From there, I began to work at my local dancewear store and my family purchased the business. I travel the U.S. fitting pointe shoe all over the country.
Fast forward a many years, a husband and two kids, I felt a pull towards writing again. I started making tabletop gaming dice as my first step back into the creative realm and have loved it. But nothing had quite filled that void when I gave up writing. It’s taken me nearly a decade to figure out who I am without dance and now as a mother.
But now as a [somewhat] mature adult, wife and mother, I have learned that you can be good at many things and not be confined to a singular box of ‘i-can-only-do-this-one-thing-forever.’ I can be a mom and a pointe shoe fitter and a dice smith and a dancer and a writer.
The limit does not exist.
Alas, here we are! I’m currently working on my debut novel and hope to have it published in 2027 (lol lets hope!)
Other random things about me:
- I live in the Pacific Northwest (Washington State)
- I have a dog and two cats
- I love to garden
- Skyrim is my favorite video game, followed closely by FFXV and Kingdom Hearts II
- I played the violin for ten years
- I was [almost] published in Chicken Soup for the Soul but forgot to send the paperwork in time. I still cannot believe I failed that badly lol
- I know film scores and their composers better than new-age pop stars
- If I could live in a cabin in the woods I totally would
- I quote Spongebob on the daily, or any meme for the right occasion
- I won’t live somewhere where I can’t see the mountains