Writer, Teacher, Mom, Neurotic Mess
Meet the Madwoman!
Hilary Sifling writes Paranormal modern fantasy (Melusine's Endgame series) and Young Adult fiction (dark fantasy, science fiction, and historical). Her stories feature buried histories that have a nasty tendency to emerge from the woodwork and bite her protagonists in the rear.
Hilary holds a Bachelor's Degree in Animal Sciences and a Master's Degree in Science Education. Maybe that's why half of what she writes is Young Adult...she's around young adults nine hours a day for nine months of the year. If only they could stop setting her classroom floor on fire.
Hilary is originally from the Southwest Chicago suburbs, but now lives in Jefferson City, Missouri. She gets most of her writing done at the local Panera or between the hours of 11pm-3am, because sleep is for the weak. When she isn't writing or teaching, she is working on the natural history museum that lives in her basement.
Hilary lives with her husband, two sons, and the Greyhounds of Questionable Sanity.
Things Hilary Is Amazing At:
Hearing. Her students will tell you that her sense of hearing is beyond ridiculous. If you are having a whispered conversation, she WILL hear it.
Doing math equations in her head.
Wrangling snakes from the school hallways. Long stories. She still has one of them.
Things Hilary is Terrible At:
Drawing. Every one of her students will tell you that Hilary can't draw to save her life. And it's the truth.
Regulating her caffeine consumption. Hilary has horrified her classes on more than one occasion with the sheer amount of coffee she can take down in an hour.
Fixing technology. Just don't ask her. Seriously. She will only make it worse.