I'm Krista Alasti. I like to write. I've spent a good part of my life wishing my parents hadn't cursed me with the double-A. You might as well call me Krista Lasti. It sounds better. No, it really doesn't.
Other than bemoaning my unfortunate name, I use up copious amounts of time trying to figure out what genre I like best, and have come to the conclusion that, unlike the rest of the population, I don't have one. I like characters. It doesn't bother me much what they're doing, or if they're human or mutant or werewolf or alien, as long as I fancy them.
Basically, I write whatever interests me. I've written about shape-shifters, people with special powers, surly teenagers, screwed-up families, star-crossed lovers, demons, ghosts, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, sibling rivalries, deep-dark-secrets, and everything in between.
The one thing all of these have in common--no, two things: humor (aka sarcasm), and drama (aka my addiction).
Other than reading and writing? Dogs. That about sums it up. I love dogs, specifically my dogs, but also every other dog (for the most part). My dogs are as much my children as the characters I create.
Speaking of which...names.
Names.
I am freakishly obsessive about names. My character Shella was named Zella, Shelby, Stella, Nova, and Starla at one time. I had another character who, when I was writing his story, kept deciding to have a different name every 20 pages or so. Finn. Keller. Logan. Dorian. Hunter. Bob.
Okay, not that last one. My current goal is to pick names that don't scream: WOW, KRISTA, YOU PICKED ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE NAMES. Soap-opera-esque.
It's not going well.
Find me on Goodreads at http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4929707.Krista_Alasti
or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Krista-Alasti/211137402349145#
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