Finally registered - long overdue hello!

Hello! I've been reading these forums for years, but only just now made an account. I may still lurk, but I'm going to try to be active.

I finished my first novel earlier this year and have since gone through the whole editing, polishing, beta reading, etc. process. Somehow, I've come through it all intact with a shiny novel to put out into the world. I JUST started querying agents last week and and mostly consumed by that process right now, though I'm trying to reign in all these crazy plot bunnies so I can figure out which one is mature enough to... breed a whole story from? Okay, this metaphor is getting out of control.

I'm a teen librarian [a librarian who specializes in serving teens] and enjoy YA fiction of all genres. I've been a sci-fi/fantasy girl since birth. As you can imagine, I mostly write YA SFF, though I occasionally try my hand at some contemporary. I'm very committed to diversity in literature and actively seek out diverse books to buy for my library at work and at home. I also write diverse books because... y'know, the world. #WeNeedDiverseBooks!

When not reading, writing, or librarianing, I can be found playing video games or tabletop games, singing awful songs to my dogs, or running around in the woods.

Glad to be here! Looking forward to getting to know you all.

I guess I should clarify that being a teen librarian means being a librarian who serves teens, not a teen who works in a library. I'm an adult, I swear.

I'm the teen services coordinator for a medium-sized urban library, which is an awesome job in its own right, but it's also great research for writing teen characters. I definitely have some library-related story bits here and there, but nothing that's fully percolated in my brain yet. One day, though!

No problem Alleycat, a VERY common mix-up -- I should have known better!

Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone. Better than the welcome in the pub...they hit me with a bedazzler. I'll never be the same again.