Moving Forward Monday - About Me, About What I Write

Hello there! My name is Elise K. Ra'sha. I'm a 38 year-old-woman who writes science-fiction and fantasy. It's a genre that I truly adore. Ask me anything about the books I've read, the shows and movies I've watched, and the video games I've played, we'll have a very lively and lovely conversation. Ask me about my favorite characters, and I'm more than happy to oblige. Ask me about the places I want to see, and I'll give you quite the list and dreams for that, too!

Ask me about what I'm writing, and I stumble. Ask me to write my About the Author blurb, and I'm totally clueless because I feel like I'm a totally boring person who hasn't done much.

I've noted before that I grew up as a geek. Mom and Dad loved various science-fiction and fantasy themed shows and movies. Star Wars and Star Trek were the norm. So was Transformers and the Never-Ending Story.

They never actually read us fairy tales, but a few things did trickle to us.

I didn't have very many friends in school. I was always the oddball out, never fitting in and never feeling like I truly belonged in the small town that served as my home for the majority of my 38 years. I graduated high school but never finished college. I love cats, and I want to become a mother.

Some of the greatest lessons I've learned have come from my mother. More have come from within me and all that I've experienced.

I've been homeless but never without hope. I've continued to go forwards and backwards throughout my life, and it's been in the last two years that I've really learned who I was, as a person and as an author.

I work five days a week as a server at a local Ihop. My best friend lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, and is someone I have not yet met. But there is no denying the impact she's had on my life, and I'm forever grateful to her for it.

I currently emobdy the whole nerd thing by living in my mother's basement. Cliche? Yes. Appealing? Not so much but more due to the state of the house than anything else.

I write science-fiction and fantasy. My first series, Arc of Fantasy, is featuring two heterosexual twin brothers, their gay best friend, a somewhat timid young woman and her heterosexual guy best friend, and a woman who dreams of commanding her own ship. I like challenging myself on how to deal with the not-so-traditional fantasy and science-fiction character.

I am absolutely enthralled with the Norse histories, even in light of their not-so-pretty history.

I am a Pagan.

I believe there are themes in writing that unite us, no matter what our gender, our skin color, our culture, and our social status are.

All of this, I tend to choke on when it comes to talking to other people about my work and when it comes to writing it up for sites like Amazon and NOOK Press. I don't know why, either.

Everything else comes so naturally to me.

Up tomorrow, movie review of the Ghostbusters reboot. Yes, I went there.

Enjoying my Monday off!