Paragon (Volume 1)
Amy Holt was not a reader growing up. She found reading difficult and anything but fun so when she decided to write, her goal was easy to read and fast paced. Amy's philosophy was that dialogue propels a story from words on a page to a movie in your mind. When characters move and talk they become real. After all, a zombie is only a really ugly scarecrow until it moans and lumbers after you.  When Amy isn't writing she enjoys spending time with her family and feels very blessed to be a stay-at-home mom. She likes riding bikes, hiking, playing kickball, and bacon. Sometimes her health keeps her from bikes, hiking, and kickball, but nothing comes between her and bacon. Although, her very favorite food was the luscious, juicy peach she got at a roadside stand in Georgia. It was so divine she didn't even care that it dribbled down her face and made her a sticky mess. ~Amy's thoughts about why she started writing and decided to publish ~ Several year ago I developed some health problems. After months spent sitting in a recliner, I was crazy with boredom. Boredom can lead you to do things that are completely out of character: for me that was writing.  Why would I try to write a story? I didn't even enjoy reading. However, I was reading a lot of books at the time because I needed something to do. I'm not sure when things changed and I started enjoying my time reading, but I do know why I started writing.  My favorite thing to do while sitting around bored was making up stories. I had to do something to keep the stories straight, so I wrote them down. It was my dad who decided others would like reading my stories. I admit I didn't love everything I had to do to get the books published. Publishing isn't the fun part for me, what I really love is writing. And it still seems like I'm having an out of body experience when I say I love writing. I have no doubt my desire to write and any ability that I have was a gift from Heavenly Father to help me not go completely crazy with boredom.