Meteorologist turned novelist, Maria V. Snyder's been writing since she was bored at work and needed something creative to do. Twenty-four published novels and two short story collections later, Maria's learned a thing or three about writing.She's been on the New York Times bestseller list, won a dozen awards, and has earned her MA degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University where she's been happily sharing her knowledge with the current crop of MFA students. When she's not writing, she's either playing pickleball, traveling, taking pictures, or zonked out on the couch due to all of the above.