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Professional Bio
Mandy M. Roth
grew up fascinated by creatures that go bump in the night. From the very
beginning, she showed signs of creativity. At age five, she had her first
piece of artwork published. Writing came into play early in her life as
well. Over the years, the two mediums merged and led her to work in
marketing. Combining her creativity with her passion for horror has left her
banging on the keyboard into the wee hours of the night. Mandy lives with
her husband and three children on the shores of
Lake Erie, where she is currently starting work on
her Master’s Degree.
To
learn more about Mandy, please visit
www.mandyroth.com or send
an email to
mandy@mandyroth.com.
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photo copyright (c) 2008 Mandy M. Roth
Personal Bio
I grew up fascinated by creatures that go
bump in the night. From the very beginning I was odd and creative. After
studying art all the way through school, I went to major in it at college.
One rather unexpected child later, I changed my major and finished with a
great balance of art and business. The two fields left me a prime
candidate for marketing. I'm working on my MBA with a concentration in
marketing but to be honest, its taken a back seat while I catch up on
releases.
I live with my husband and three boys. They definitely keep me busy.
Between convincing one he really doesn't need to have his eyebrow pierced,
listening to the middle one's philosophy on life and pulling the youngest
off the counter top, I do manage to eek in a very small amount of writing
time during the day. Though, I'm not sure if plopping my laptop on the
dinning room table, jacking the sound up high, and setting my email program
to check mail every two minutes while I chase children and clean the house
counts but for the sake of argument we'll say it does.
More often than not, my writing is done from around 8pm until 3 am. When
writer block hits, I find that I still can't sleep until 3, so I'm left to
find other things to do. Most of the time, I'll catch up on fellow authors'
books or do some research. When the writers block is extremely bad, I
find myself playing video games. You heard me right! LOL! Hey, I
ended up with all boys for a reason you know!
The past year has been a whirlwind for me. July, 2003 I sat down one
night at my computer because I couldn't sleep. There was NOTHING on
television and I'd read all the books on my shelves. Bored out of my mind, I
decided that I jot a few things down. Four weeks later, DAUGHTER OF
DARKNESS was done and book two was starting. I'd never written anything
before and was a bit shocked myself. After some coaxing from a close friend
of mine, I sent it out to about five places. One agent flat out told
me no. I suspect this was because he didn't represent that genre but I
already knew that when I sent it. He had is picture up on the web and
was/is a hottie. By January 1st, I had a contract in hand from New
Concepts Publishing. I squealed, then squealed some more. Then I
stopped, called a close friend of mine and we screamed together. We also
spend the next week attempting to figure out what DOD stood for. We
originally thought Date of Delivery, yet it didn't really make sense in the
context of the email. Then it hit me: DOD stands for Daughter of Darkness.
Yeah, you know its bad when you screw that up.
I went on a new contract high and finished three more books in the DOD
series, wrote IMMORTAL OPS, SUPERNATURAL SUSPECTS, THE VALKYRIE, VALHALLA,
MISFITS, & LAST CALL--all within three or four months. Not sleeping,
and being convinced that at any moment someone would show up at your front
door and call you out on not being a "real writer" will make you insane
enough to toss that many books out.
As the release for DOD approached, I met a few more "newbie" authors at NCP
and several from Ellora's Cave. We all hit it off immediately, especially
Michelle M. Pillow, Jaycee Clark and myself. From that point on, I had
people to share the rollercoaster ride with. They were great because
all were seasoned writing veterans and didn't seem to mind holding my hand
through the entire process. The marketing fell to me and after being sick to
death of a certain daily/weekly online interviewer ignoring NCP authors,
HAPPY HOUR WITH THE MM's was born. Michelle and I launched it with the
idea that authors from ANY publisher were welcome and that we would do our
best not to bore anyone to death. We came up with the idea and the
four main characters. We still needed a setting. We knew that we
wanted it to be a blend of a soap, Sex In The City, and Cheers. The
minute Michelle suggested we use the bar/nightclub from the DOD series
I jumped on it. Thus, THE RAVEN became the MM's hang out.
It's unbelievable how much the project promoted us as well as the guest
authors. It is still popular and each time a chapter is released we know
that we'll be getting up to a thousand hits! While the direction of
HAPPY HOUR has changed a bit, the story is still strong.
In the middle of all of this, Jaycee Clark, introduced me to Jaci Burton.
She and her husband Charlie were just amazingly nice to me. Instantly,
they seemed to take me under their wing. Jaci included (still does) me
in many of the promotional projects she's working on. She is such a
sweet gal that she even pushed her editor to take a peek at a piece that
Michelle and I co-wrote. In the end, we ended up with a contract from
EC and two people we consider friends. (Plus, I met Melani Blazer, Shannon
Stacey and got to know Angie W a hell of a lot better....leaving me with an
even bigger writing support group.)
With NCP releases in the double digits, EC release(s) coming in the new
year, and a fountain of reader support, I'm finding many new doors opening
to me. Now, I only need the courage to leap through them feet first.
It's all been very surreal. I do NOT se myself as an author and laugh
a bit every time I tell someone what I do. I'm still convinced someone will show up and call me a poser but I'm confidant I could kick
their arse, or at the very least creep them out enough to run away.
I can
only guess at what the coming years will bring. If it's half as good as
2004, I'll be a happy gal! I'm doing something I love, meeting tons of
new people, have the greatest readers in the world and the support of my
family.
Hopefully, I'll have some exciting news to share with you all very soon!
I'd rather not share until I know for sure, but rest assured, once I know,
you'll know.
Thanks
for you support,
Mandy
(who is
too lazy to proofread her own website) LOL
I'd love to hear from readers
and can be reached by
clicking here. Should
you be attempting to sell me something, know that I'm one a tightass and two
not in need of pills to help me get an erection, but thanks. :)
***Disclaimer, any book (outside of my own
books/titles), music, movie, etc. recommendations I make on my web/blog are
purely recommendations. I make no money if you buy them. I simply talk about
things I like. Thank you.***
If you get a second, check out my RWA
Chapter!
NEORWA Chapter (Northeast
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