As the month of February comes to a close, we are treated again to another installment of the "Pulse Behind the GA Crowd" - a monthly interview column from Yettie One, with this month a wonderful interview with Nephylim!

In January Cia introduced us to the wonderful idea of the Can’t Stop Reading Book Club, and in January we got to read a story by Nephylim called Memories of Forgotten Love. Personally I thoroughly enjoyed the story, and it was a pleasure to be introduced to Nephy’s work, so it kind of got me inquisitive and I determined that for this months Pulse Behind the GA Crowd interview, I was going to discover a bit about the member we call Nephylim.

The first thing I discovered was that Nephy is a proud member of our Welsh contingent here on GA, flying the red dragon in prominent place, she describes herself as a vampire, a fallen angel, a confused soul! This only served to inspire my intrigue and I was so looking forward to this interview.

Nephy is a wonderful young lass that features as a Hosted Author on GA. She is published author, and has a well respected place at GA with a loyal following of fans and readers alike. But other than her wonderful stories, an ability to paint the most vivid pictures with words, who is this master of written art?

Picture a hearse, with parking sensors to help her park, maybe a star or two, or a skull or something scary and Nephy logo’s on the windows, and you’d know that Nephy has just arrived. A massive fan of cats and owls, a girl who loves the colour silver and someone that is extremely ticklish, Nephy came to GA via google. “I simply decided one day that I wanted to share my writing with others, and someone had mentioned that I could do this online. I consulted with Google, discovered GA, and I’m convinced an angel was looking over my shoulder that day, because I started to post and the best chapter in my life so far began,” she tells me.

Every time I chat with a member I ask them about their favourite stories and authors here on GA, and this time was no different, other than for the fact that Nephy mixed it all up for me by making it a challenge for all of us. “I’ll tell you my favourites, but I’m not giving you everything. If you really want to know which stories I mean, then go check out the authors stuff and enjoy discovering them as much as I did!” What a wonderful idea I thought.

So her 5 favourite stories would list like this. Check out a story called Against the Machine. It’s by an author that makes his stories exciting, inspiring, intriguing. I never knew from one week to the next what was going to happen, and the flow and writing skill is amazing. Also check out a story by Cia with the blue guy in it. Such a unique and inventive story. I’d have to include the story about Avy, a vampire tale by Dark as one of my top five reads on GA, and let’s not forget the story written by Kavrik about a demon and a werewolf.

See what I mean by mixing it up! (hehe, I love it, a challenge within the interview). In terms of authors, I’d recommend stuff from Marzipan who’s work will touch and haunt you with her art. Robin, who is so delicate and underrated on GA, but writes some really astonishing stuff. Andy Q has an ability to create a character that is compelling and dynamic, and Kia Zi Shiru has produced one of my favourite stories ever in Black Sheep.

“I’m a home girl,” Nephy tells me when I ask about travel and adventure. “I love my home, it’s warm, comfortable and I’m surrounded by my things, the laptop and plug to the power socket being the number one priority.” Nephy has such a wicked sense of homeliness, even her favourite meal reminds me of good old fashioned home cooking. “It’d have to be a corned beef pie with crusty bread for dinner,” she giggles. “Followed by body chocolate eaten off a body that’s been tied to the bed, kept waiting for a while!” Oh I say, we all love a bit of a cheeky dominatrix, don’t we?

But for Nephy, GA is the place where it was all born. “GA is responsible for launching me into the world of writing. The experiences I've had here will be with me for the rest of my life. It was not only my first foray into publishing my writing but also into the realm of communities and chatting to strangers. I have had nothing but positive experiences. Even the occasional spats and conflicts i've had have left me stronger. If I hadn't found GA I don't think anything that came after would have occurred. My stories wouldn't have been written, my characters wouldn't have been born and I wouldn't have had the confidence to get out there and published, that's for sure.”

For a quiet powerhouse in the writing department, Nephy was a wonderful person to interview, and I enjoyed discovering more about the person whose words have so entertained me in my time here at GA. I’d like to thank Nephylim for her candor and sense of fun while I probed her time here at GA, and hope you enjoyed getting to see a side to her that will only add to the spice and life of the Crowd here at GA.

Next month, we’ll meet a member who’s a lover of horses, a fan of Charlies Angels, and has a great story or two here on GA. Until then, take care, be good, and if you can’t be good be bloody good at it.

The Yettie!