Hi, it's me!

Hi, it’s me!

Okay, so this may be my second (or third) blog, but there’s never a better time than the present to step out and say ‘hi’. My name is Rissa Renae and I’m an American-Canadian author of Young Adult/Teen paranormal fiction.

I spend my days in the disguise of a regular office worker directing my team as we keep a division of an Environmental Services company running in the Alberta oil patch. But by night, after the little one goes to bed, I shed the high heels and uptight clothing and become a stalker of abandoned cities and purveyor of knowledge pertaining to all that is creepy and chill-inducing.

My goal is to become a creator of chills and suspense somewhere between Hideki Kamiya (Devil May Cry) and Stephen King, but geared towards a teenage and young adult audience. I do occasionally step outside this genre for writing projects and those random ideas that pop into my head. I haunt NaNoWriMo every year and have a sci-fi novel and a high fantasy under my belt from my experiences.

So what exactly do I write? Well, for now I’m keeping that under wraps (I know, great marketing strategy huh?), at least until the first book gets out there. I’m shy on the details because a close friend had his idea stolen and brought to market ahead of him. What I will tell you is that my series is somewhat of a Devil May Cry meets Bleach look into the life of a not-so-ordinary high school student.

Alrighty, so there’s the first blog post out of the way. I still have quite a few sites to set up, and not to mention the yard work is calling me. It’s still calling me . . .

Hope the summer is going well for you!

– Rissa