I spent my teen years crushing on authors and writing short stories about vampires. This is also how I have spent a good slice of my adult years—although the vampires have been replaced by werewolves, angry girls, and ghosts. Five things you might want to know: — I am Canadian—I am unlikely to survive the first few hours of the zombie apocalypse—I grew up on a steady diet of Stephen King, Doctor Who, and science fiction movies from the 60s, 70s, and 80s. — I have a weakness for romantic comedies with abysmally low Rotten Tomatoes scores—I am occasionally a university student