Carla Hoch is the author of the Writer’s Digest book Fight Write: How to Write Believable Fight Scenes. She is the blogger of FightWrite.net and podcaster of the eponymous FightWrite podcast. Carla has training in nearly a dozen martial arts and fighting styles and regularly teaches workshops on the mechanics of fighting for writers as well as the craft of writing fight scenes. She trains outside of Houston, in the People's Holy Republic of Texas where she lives with her family, paranoid guinea pigs and judgmental cat. Carla Factoids:

• When Carla was in 5th grade she wrote to People Magazine and told them how much she loved their article on the E.T. movie star Henry Thomas. People Magazine wrote her back, she still has the letter, and helped Carla become an official member of the E.T. fan club.
• She was the Sam's Club Employee of the Month once. She was also surveilled by Sam's Club to see if she was stealing money but it turned out she was just super bad at counting down her cash register. They kept her and raised her as their own.
• She was almost suspended in high school for shooting spit balls. It wasn't so much the spit balls. It was that when she was told to write an essay on why she shouldn't shoot spit balls, Carla argued that her spit balls were a cry for peace and if everyone would put down their guns and pick up straws the world would be a better place to live!
• She is a descendent of William Shakespeare's mother's sister.
• She is really good at making popcorn on the stove.
• Carla has training in hapkido, MMA, Muay Thai, street defense, iaido and Filipino martial arts and is belted in judo, aikido, TKD and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
• Both her late father and late aunt were professional writers