Over the years, I’ve written in a lot of different genres. I even wrote fanfiction for a while, including for one (unsuccessful) NaNoWriMo. For a long time, fantasy was my preference, inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia and In the Land of Unicorns. Then, in high school, I started watching Law & Order and In the Heat of the Night, and I was bitten by the mystery bug. I wrote fantasy for a while after that, but then, for NaNoWriMo 2009, I plotted a steampunky murder mystery set in late-Meiji era Japan. It wasn’t my first NaNo win, but it was my most successful (56000 words written!), and I’ve been enamored with mystery ever since. I have plans for historical mysteries (starting with the steampunk, which has become less steampunky over time) and contemporary mysteries in the future.