Hey ya'll!  I'm excited to be a part of the NKotWB and this is my first post, so I thought I would just introduce myself by interviewing me (much like interviewing our characters except I do exist in the physical plane - sort of).

What's your name:  Clancy Metzger, although Clancy is a nickname given to me when I was only a few weeks old and I've never gone by anything else.  Funny story - I was so nicknamed because an Irish vacuum cleaner salesman told my parents I had a temper like 'Clancy the Cop' of old Ireland (a boogieman type of character who had a terrible temper and got red in the face).  I've since mellowed with age :)

Favorite hobbies: I love to watch movies and TV, at home, at the theater, on DVD - I don't care - just love it.  Mostly I like to watch romantic comedies and action flicks, but almost anything goes. Favs are Hunt For Red October, Don't Tell Her It's Me, Bent, anything Monty Python, anything by Joss Whedon, RomComs featuring Sandra Bullock or Hugh Grant, musicals, old movies, NCIS, NCIS:LA, Justified, Leverage, NFL.... the list is seriously too long to go on, but you get the idea.  I also love reading and the list of books and or authors is also too extensive to list here although some of my new favorite authors include Grace Burrows and Victoria Dahl.

Pets, Food and Tattoos:  I have two small dogs and a few cats.  I'm a really picky eater, so I get a lot of flack about that.  I'm a meat and potatoes kind of gal and not much for veggies.  But, I have a lot of peccadillo's when it comes to food, so it's not just what it is but often how it's prepared and well.... it's a long list and more than can be explained here.  But, if you are in a Chinese restaurant and someone orders Broccoli Beef without the broccoli - it's probably me.  Just saying...  As for tattoos - love them, have about eleven of them and want more.  Instead of getting charms or spoons when I travel, I get a tattoo that represents the place I've been.  A little weird but they are really small and I can't lose them.

Writing:  I am pre-published but working on getting there.  I have written throughout my life in various forms but only spent the last few years writing romance novels (my favorite genre).  What I've tried my hand at so far includes historical western, paranormal, erotic and my current WIP is a contemporary.  The current is about a pilot and a reporter.  Love it!

Funny anecdote: I grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska.  One winter, when I was around fifteen, it was about 40 degrees below zero and I was running late to catch my school bus.  We lived way out in the country at the end of a very long driveway; I had just gotten out of the shower and my hair was dripping wet but I had to pull on clothes and run for the bus. Halfway down the drive, my hair which was long then, froze and I accidentally hit it with my hand breaking off a chunk.  I picked up what looked like a hair Popsicle and caught my bus.  Then had to spend the entire day explaining why I had an eight inch chunk of hair missing from about ear height down on my right front side.  An awful shag haircut followed.  Not one of my finer moments.

So, that's me in a nutshell.  See ya'll next month with a post on something other than just me :)