Okay, so when scouring the web, looking at different authors' sites and seeing whose bios I could plagiarize shamelessly, I discovered something really interesting: a lot of these bios are written in third person. Hm. Third person. How very pro athlete. But when in Rome…

So I tried. I started various permutations of bios that began, "Barbara Ferrer is an author, blah, blah, blah, romance industry, yada, yada, yada..." Problem was, no matter how hard I tried, they then inevitably segued into stuff like "She likes Piña Coladas and getting caught in the rain…" then it went into puppies and world peace and you know, nothing wrong with any of that, except maybe the Piña Colada part, but it all just started sounding a little too beauty pageant for my taste, you know? Next thing, I'd be whipping out the flaming batons and that's just not a pretty sight.

So anyhow… the real me. Warts and all. Not that I have warts… Anyway.

I'm a writer. I toil and struggle over a hot keyboard, clad in my fashionable apron, heels, and pearls, trying to navigate the nutty industry known as publishing. I have a sarcastic, slightly irreverent sense of humor which is also good when dealing with the nutty industry known as publishing

I'm a huge music, movie and television fiend, pop culture geek, and a dedicated acolyte to the subversive genius that is Seth MacFarlane. Seth, honey? If you're out there and looking for an egg donor? Well… call me and we'll talk. I mean, imagine the possibilities. *ahem* Well then, moving right along, hm? A dedicated Mac junkie, I wouldn't know what to do without my iMac, iPod, and iCrack, erm, iTunes. Sad, yes, but it's the iTruth.

Let's see, what else? I'm a first generation, bilingual, Cuban-American raised in Miami, and how cliché is that? It's right up there with my typically Latina body, I tell you. However, I've done my best to bust the stereotypes by a) never wearing tight white capris, four-inch heels, and hoop earrings big enough for Paris Hilton's Chihuahua to leap through and b) living in places as varied as Tallahassee, Nashville, and Cleveland. The end result is an eclectic dress sense and an accent that can reflect every locale I've lived in, often within the same sentence.

This background of mine also means that yes, I speak Spanish reasonably fluently, I can read it reasonably fluently, and tend to employ various bits, of, shall we say, the more colorful expressions, in my writing. This also means I can possibly help you out with any foreign language manuscript issues, however, if you revert to high school Spanish rules and start asking me about conjugating verbs and how best to use the subjective, etcetera/ad nauseum, I'm going to look at you as if you're speaking, well, a foreign language.

Other tidbits include extensive music and theatre training dating back to the age of five which means I took piano lessons for far longer than any reasonably sane person would, I'm really talkative, and worse still, can often be found singing in public, even if I'm not aware of it. Ask me about the time it got me fifty percent off on a Cute Pair of Shoes though. Really. A crowning achievement in my career to date and how sad does that make me?

So, that's the non-flaming baton twirling, warts and all, (not that I have warts) me. Anything else you want to know about me, feel free to tool around the website; check out the links, which provide deep insight into my particular fetishes, my journal, which I update fairly frequently, and my excerpts, which will give you an idea of what I do when I'm not taking long walks in the rain and makin' love at midnight.

Oh, and if you like the way the website looks, feel free to click on the cute little icon on the homepage and follow where it takes you. Email him even. He likes that.