Rachel Beth Ahrens is one of those starving author types who admires the writing styles of Steven Moffat (Doctor Who: "Eleventh Hour", "Blink", "Deep Breath", among other masterpiece episodes), Neil Gaiman (Neverwhere, Fortunately the Milk), and Shanna Swendson (the Enchanted, Inc. series), but has yet to publish anything original. A graduate of Towson University with a useless Bachelor's in journalism, she resides in Maryland with her family, where she enjoys writing poetry and not reading it, watching (and re-watching) old fannish movies and learning and reciting lines from every Marvel production, and crocheting Tardis gloves of her own design instead of sewing or shopping at Hot Topic for a pair. She additionally participates in the bi-annual Camp NaNoWriMo (campnanowrimo.org) as part of National Novel Writing Month, but spends most of those months compiling playlists of her favorite music to fit the mood of each story she writes.

Despite her father's disproval of Doctor Who and her ex-boyfriend's encouragement to destroy her publishing desires, she daydreams of one day of meeting her favorite writers of all sorts and receiving book-movie deals and the biggest surprise 30th birthday party somewhere she actually feels more at home than her "crabby" Baltimore.

Keep on dreaming, lady.

Her WordPress blog is The Lady in the Blue Box, rachelbethahrens.wordpress.com. Follow her on Twitter- @RachelBeth99

"Fear makes companions of us all." -Clara Oswald (Jenna Coleman), "Listen" (BBC 2014)

"You better trust that voice in your head that your world is not what it seems/ It's not the monster under your bed/ It's the one with you in the sheets... It's hard enough just making money; it's hard enough just trying to feel alive... Don't ask me to change/ It's up to you..." -Walk the Moon, "Up 2 U" from Talking is Hard