Today’s guest’s bio on her website says that she “grew up sharing (your) life with dragons, elves, vampires, werewolves, shapeshiters and the occasional talking horse” but she actually had jobs as a clerk at the Bureau of Meteorology, a cook at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, and a Function and Desert cook at the Essendon Football Club in Melbourne well before she became an author. She has penned the New York Times bestselling Riley Jenson Guardian series and I met her many years ago at my very first Romance Writers of Australia conference. I remember how I was a little overwhelmed when I met her but that she was welcoming and very down to earth and easy to speak to – immediately putting me at ease. Since then, I’ve enjoyed seeing her at numerous conferences, conventions and book signings and have followed her career (and over forty books) with great interest. I’ve cheered when she won RT’s Career Achievement Award for urban fantasy, applauded when she’s won Australian Romanc...