Andrea Brokaw prefers being called Andy. She's a novelist. And an advanced dreamer, an intermediate skier, a novice curler, a really bad housekeeper, and a level 9 homeschooling mom. As a Navy brat and then a Navy wife, she's lived on three continents, in four countries, and in more states and towns than she can reliably count. She has two cats, a husband, and an nine-year-old boy.

At present, Andy's residing in Ellensburg, WA. Don't worry if you've never heard of it, she hadn't before moving here in early 2009. She loves Washington State, though she strongly prefers the cloudy mountain parts to the sunny desert part that Ellensburg's in. You would too if you also had PMLE, which is fundamentally an allergy to sunlight.