Hometown: Huntington Beach, CA

Favorite Authors: Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens, Lawrence Sanders, Alexandre Dumas, John Steinbeck

Other favorite people with a pen set: Erma Bombeck, Neil Simon

Addicted to the classic comedies like "His Girl Friday", "It Happened One Night", "My Man Godfrey", "Arsenic & Old Lace", "My Favorite Wife"

A good day is meeting friends for pasta and wine ... sharing laughs and old secrets!

Joining the fanfic crowd came on a fluke ...

While visting the BSN thread "keep your love blue and true! Liara Fans" TheMarshal asked a very simple thing: "I was wondering if, in your travels, you guys had come across any fics that centered around Liara but did not focus on her romance with Shepard? Are there any fics where she's actually romancing someone else (not OC's or SI's, please)."

I piped up a little hesitant:

"I have been writing my own story about Shepard & Liara for my game (just for my own enjoyment). I had started just writing about Shepard pre-ME1 but as I continued writing, Liara was in my head saying "But what was I doing at this time?" Crazy, I know.
I've been enjoying writing what both characters did before they met and looking at Liara's life with her mother, the acolytes, her hobbies, her best friend, her job on Thessia, her first crush/girlfriend, her goals; it has made me like her even more.
For me, I would be apprehensive though to put it out there because I wouldn't want someone else getting upset at something I did with Liara ... "

With follow-up encouragement from TheMarshal , Ophiskc , Kachie and Kadzin I decided to go ahead and share what I saw as the backstory to E.W. Shepard. I wanted to know what she had lost at 16 years old when the batarians destroyed everything that she loved. I wanted to mourn with her as she thought of her family and friends ... Then Liara spoke up and begged to have her story told as well. After all, she experienced a great loss and her life forever changed on Noveria.

So here is my story of Elizabeth Whisper Shepard and the asari named Liara T'Soni that she would one day lose her heart too.

If you don't enjoy my ghastly story, please blame it on the “unrepentant four” as Hannah Shepard of "A Thessian's Whisper" would call them.

Coffee & Pooh: This is a short piece on P.V Shepard and Ashley M. Williams on board the Normandy. A special nod to xxSgt_Reed_24xx who gave me encouragement on this one.