Merrie Destefano

• Gender: Female
• Industry: Publishing
• Occupation: Freelance editor and writer
• Location: United States

About Me

On a good day, when the sun is shining and my house is clean, I like to write. I even enjoy it. On a bad day, writing terrifies me. It feels like each word peels back another layer of skin.

When you open your eyes underwater, do you ever worry that you'll drown?

Never. I wish I could live in the silent place where light filters through blue ripples and icy water licks my skin ...

Interests

• Diet Coke
• Diet Snapple
• Patchouli incense
• German shepherds
• Siamese cats
• Books with well-developed characters and brilliant prose

Favorite Movies

• Forbidden Planet
• War of the Worlds (1953)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• The Time Machine (1960 & 2002)
• Memento
• The Lord of the Rings
• Minority Report
• The Island
• Jurassic Park
• Enemy Mine
• Star Wars
• Blade Runner
• The Wizard of Oz
• The Princess Bride
• The Mummy (1999)
• American Dreamer
• Funny Farm
• The Man With One Red Shoe
• Galaxy Quest
• The Chronicles of Riddick
• LA Confidential
• Double Indemnity
• Superman
• I Robot
• Spiderman

Favorite Music

• Elbow
• Moby
• Fatboy Slim
• Siouxsie and the Banshees
• Delirious
• Jars of Clay
• Coldplay
• Buffalo Springfield
• Oceania
• Muse
• DC Talk
• AfroCelts
• BBS Lounge
• Imogen Heap

Favorite Books

• Havah
• Red Planet
• The Time Machine
• The Secret Life of Bees
• The Poet
• Writing Down the Bones
• Jurassic Park
• The Time Traveler's Wife
• Timeline
• Jumper
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

My Blogs	Team Members
Publishing Tsunami
Alien Dream