MJ grew up, and still lives, in sunny Washington state and while she loves to visit other places, she can't imagine calling anywhere else home. MJ spent her childhood writing stories. Sometime in her early teens, the stories turned to romance. Most of those stories were about her, her friends, and their favorite cute tv stars. She hopes she's come a long way since then... When MJ's not writing, she loves to play the piano and cook and paint pictures, and of course read. She likes sparkly girly girl things, owns at least twenty different colored headbands, and she has a little white dog with a ginger eye spot who sits with her when she writes. Sometimes the dog comes up with the best ideas… for her stories...when she's not busy napping.