Stacia Stark

I felt like I was, it was a lot of paranormal romance, you know, as I was sort of in my 20s.

I read a lot of Karen Marie Moning, Nalini Singh, who I met yesterday, a few days ago, and fangirled so hard.

And then, you know, Patricia Briggs, all of that.

And then I feel like, funnily enough, so when I was in high school, I read the John Marsden series.

Which I was actually talking about recently in America.

And, you know, it's not very well known over there.

This is so formative for us here.

I know.

But I really think that that was one of the first times that I saw like a teenage girl, which I was, be like kicking ass and saving the world.

And obviously that's like action adventure, you know.

But I think that probably informed a lot of my writing when I look back.

Wow.

So we were all kind of separated in different English classes and I was really jealous because my friend got to.

I can't even remember what I got to do, but I was like, are you kidding me?

Like I read this book for fun and you get to do it as like, you know, for credits.

But yeah.

Yeah, I mean, that series was great.

Not really.

I mean, it's quite nice now seeing, we're seeing a bit more of that.

Speaking of Nalini Singh, she's got some thrillers set in New Zealand, which is quite cool.