I'm a 30-something happy wife, mom of two and worker bee with an addiction to reading fan fiction on my iPad in my few spare moments each day. In worker bee mode I work for a program for at-risk young adults, and I love knowing that I make a difference in helping kids get to and through college. Reading is my release, and along with the classics I love reading YA fiction since it gives me something to talk about and relate to with my students besides classes, majors and grades. I especially love the Harry Potter and Hunger Games fandoms (I am seriously obsessed with both of these series), but will dabble in others on occasion. However, I tend to prefer canon compliant stories and pairings, along with those that are complex and honest in how they portray relationships (love those lemons, but they need to come with some plot to make lemonade).

For now I remain a devoted fan fiction reader/proofreader as I sadly seem to have been born without the gene required to write decent dialogue, but thanks to some pretty awesome teachers I miraculously retained most rules of grammar, usage and punctuation. It makes me sad to see how bad most people are at using commas and apostrophes, and am seriously annoyed by people who can't take a minute to use spell check before posting (especially in the summary, grrr). I will gladly help as a prereader if anyone needs some pointers.

I do write occasional, random observations and other nonsense on Live Journal and Tumblr. You can visit me at kerinh22(dot)livejournal(dot)com/, or safe-always-real(dot)tumblr(dot)com, but you're probably better off searching for something new to read here instead. I've got lots of great fics on my favorites page! ;)