I live in Batavia Ohio with my husband Steve and daughter Nikki, my oldest daughter Tracy got married just over a year ago. I'm a stay at home mom and a girl scout leader.

Well I would like to say since the day it came on but that would be exactly the truth. My mom (she was a total Paul fan) started watching the show first and bugged me to watch it. My response was "not another dumb cop show" but finally she talked me into watching and I was hooked and never stopped. Let me tell you she never let me live down that fact that I did called it a "dumb cop show".

Well duh, isn't it obvious? *LOL* I love their friendship, how they related to one another, they were never afraid to show emotions or how they felt about each other.

I always hate this question. It's so hard to come up with just one episode that is my favorite. But I guess if I have to pick one it would "Starsky's Lady." I'm not really sure why, I just know that when that episode is about to start, I will get tears in my eyes and they never leave.

I think I would pick "Ballad For A Blue Lady." And again I'm not really sure why, it just never struck a cord with me. I think I have only seen it a few times.

If you are asking me to pick between Starsky and Hutch I can't.

That is a tough one, I think Hutch would have become a Captain eventually and as for Starsky I'm really not sure. I could see him possibly leaving the force, especially after Hutch became Captain, not because Hutch was a Captain but I just see Starsky moving on but always remaining close to Hutch.

I started writing right after the show went off the air. I have to say I was pretty devastated, I even wrote the network (got a letter back from them too). I guess it was my way of keeping the guys alive. I wrote four or five stories I had them stashed under my bed for years. Life happened and I kind of forgot I guess but then the boys were back on TV in reruns and suddenly that love for the show was back. So I drug out my stories dusted them off and started writing again. I guess that was about '95. That was when I kind of combined a few stories and wrote "You've Got A Friend". And even though that is not listed first under my Susan Carlston series it was really my first. I then went back and wrote "New Parters New Friends" to kind of explain where this new person Susan Carlston came from. I guess I could say seeing the show again after all those years are what inspired me to write it.

I hate to say this but I don't read very much S&H fan fiction. I guess that is awful since everybody is out there reading mine but I want to make sure that my ideas are my own that I haven't gotten it from somebody's story I just read. Don't get me wrong I do read some occasionally. I don't think I can single any one person out. I think everything that I have read is outstanding and I can tell that it comes from the writers heart.

There for a long time my Susan Carlston stories were what I loved to write. I hope that I write on a variety of subjects. I do notice that they do spend a whole lot of time in hospitals and I always chuckle to myself when I'm writing a hosptial scene and think poor guys.

Not really, I might hardly be able to see the computer screen for the tears sometimes but I write. And what I cherish most is when some will write me and say that story made me cry and I think me too. I guess it's weird that your own stories make you cry.

My spelling and sometimes I think I haven't written enough background and write to much dialog. I think my biggest strength is that I know the guys. I have watched them so much that when I start writing I just get lost like I'm right there with them.

Sometimes my muse will go away and be gone for several months at a time, then she will come back and I will write several stories before she leaves again. Mowing... that is how I come up with a lot of my ideas or when I'm stuck I mow. Out there in the yard, nobody bothing you, just the hum of the mower, now if I could just hook up a keyboard to the mower handle I would be in business. Also right before I fall asleep I get ideas too.

I didn't used to use a beta reader, but last year I started a story called "Objects Are Closer Than They Apear" for some reason I wanted this story to be the very best it could be so I started searching around for a beta reader. I really didn't know what to expect, I was actually kind of scared at first not knowing what to expect. But I found Tonya (dotsonga@yahoo.com) and she is wonderful. I do think that my stories are better because of her. She tells me when things aren't flowing right or when I have spelled one persons name a hundred different ways. I don't think I would have gotten through "Objects" without her. It was a difficult story to write.

I think I would have let them gotten married or at least had steady girlfriends that would have been regulars on the show. Their love lives were always so sad. But I'm just as guilty of that in alot of my stories.

Ok I have to admit I had to look up the word canonical which didn't help me much but just guessing from the question a canonical character is characters that are in the show. I love to bring new people into my stories for the guys to interact with and I actually find them more enjoyable to write about because there is no reader expectation for what the character should be. Everybody knows Starsky and Hutch so very well that if you get too far outside the character everybody knows and it's suddenly not believeable anymore.

Susan Carlston is me, I'm sure most readers know that by now. When the show was on I think my biggest dream was to be a cop on the show with them. So I started writing it, little did I know when I wrote my first few stories with Susan Carlston that it would grow into a whole series. When I first started writing I guess I was more of a Hutch fan at the time but then when I refound the show in the 90's I guess I had changed I don't really know but it was Starsky who touched my heart, that is where the tug of war comes between Susan and the guys. I know that the readers either love or hate that series but it all comes from my heart.

I have always loved the supernatural, scary stories, Stephen King is my favorite author. And I guess I was keeping up with the times. There are so many shows out there about it now that it just seemed natural for me to write one. I actually started one several years ago, it as a cross over using the tv show Charmed but it never got off the ground and is in my file of unfinished stories.

Sometimes I think there is more to be said, like with "Objects Are Closer Than They Appear" that story was very taxing it was nearly five months before the sequel was posted. I think I stew over some stories and I just have to write a sequal to them. Other times I have actually had people ask me too. I have had quite a few ask for more Susan Carlston stories but for some reason they just aren't in me... at least for now.

Yes and no, it depends on how the feedback is given. I can remember all those years ago when I posted my first story, someone wrote a scathing feedback, nit picking every little thing that was wrong with the story, I think their feedback went on for pages. It hurt me so much I nearly threw in the towel and stopped writing. I feel readers have to have a responsibility in their feed back, you can't tear a writer limb from limb and expect them to come back for more. It's a scary process, anybody that has posted a story and I don't care if it's your first or your 40th you are apprehensive. You have to give feedback with love and care, I'm not saying it should be all roses and sunshine but you have to be kind in how you say things. I think sometimes people forget that we are not professionals, we are mom's, housewives, secretaries, officer workers etc.

That changes as I write new stories, I think right now I would have to say "Objects Are Closer Than They Appear" I put a lot of research in that story I try to research all my stories if they warrant it. I want my stories to be as accurate as possible. I did find this story hard to write, Hutch's attempted suicide bothered me for days after I wrote it.

Don't have much free times these days but like I said before Stephen Kings, my favorite book of his is The Stand. I also really like Mary Alice Monroe and my favorite book of hers is The Beach House. I read it every spring.

What shows am I not watching, most nights we have two DVR's running plus a Replay. To name a few, Charmed, Greys Anatomy, Medium, One Tree Hill, Related, The O.C. Ghost Whisperer, Numb3rs, Close To Home. Ok I'll stop. There are so many. I can't really think of any that resemble S&H right now. I think they are hard to beat. I think my favorite buddy movies are the Lethal Weapon movies, it truly comes closest to what S&H had.

Yes, Lord of the Rings. I have even written a Fanfic story for it as well as Star Wars and EverAfter which you can find on my web site. I love LOTR!

Well like I said above I don't really read much for better or worse that is just the way I am. I want my own ideas. I have even gotten to where I will go to Bay City Library and check out story titles before I name a story just so I don't come up with the same name.

Yep I'm working on a new story it's called "Save The Last Dance" I would like to be able to say when I'll be posting it but at this moment I have no idea it could be this week or next month. I'm just waiting to see where this ride takes me.

I want to say thank you, thank you to all of you out there who read my stories, to those who take the time to let me know what they think and to all the Starsky and Hutch fans out there who let me know I am not alone, there are other fans. I didn't know that until I did my first computer search on Starsky and Hutch. I would also like to say if you are a new writer or thinking about writing don't be afraid to post. And if you are giving feedback remember to be kind.