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Biography

The Stats Name: Hildred M. Billings Aliases: Calico, Kariko, "Hey, you!" Birthday: October 18th Home State: Oregon Home Country Away From Home: Japan Height: Very short. Hobbies: Writing (of course!), reading, watching movies, dancing (as badly as I can), and flirting is right up there too. Favorite Color: Orange. Orangeorangeorange! Favorite Author(s): Amy Tan, Anne McCaffrey Favorite Book: The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Keatley Snyder Favorite Movie(s): The Fifth Element Favorite Game(s): Pokémon, Zelda, MarioKart, Smash Brothers, The Sims (all!) Collectible Characters: Pikachu, Hello Kitty, Garfield, various Sailor Moon characters. Favorite Music Artist(s): Ayumi Hamasaki, Zwei, Namie Amuro, Madonna, Garbage, Jung Hyun Lee, Lacuna Coil, capsule Favorite Song(s): evolution by Ayumi Hamasaki, Movie Star by Zwei. Favorite Animal: Domestic Cat Favorite Time to Write: Late night ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brief Bio I was born and raised in a very small coastal Oregon town that treated art like second nature. I learned to read at a young age and found stories of all kinds absolutely fascinating - so much so that I wrote my first "novel" at the age of four. This story was about my grandmother and a pegasus, of all things, and was written on printer paper I cut in half. I've lost this "novel" since then, but the memory still serves as a testament to how long I've held the dream of becoming an author. During school my favorite class was always creative writing, and I quite enjoyed entertaining my classmates with the stories I wrote. Eventually I began reading fantasy and science-fiction novels when I started middle school, which propelled my imagination and prompted me to begin my first novel, The Key of Nixey when I was 13. Originally I wrote as a hobby, as a way to write the stories that I was craving to see since I was becoming very disenchanted with the books that already existed. But since then I've become quite addicted to story-crafting and the entire writing process. Writing has become one of the most therapeutic and interesting things to happen in my life - I just feel lucky that I stumbled upon it as early as I did!