Monday Madness - Lydia Kang!

First of all, a very important contest!! The whole point is to help out with a good cause. My friend is doing the Susan G. Komen walk for Breast Cancer Research and she has a goal to meet! So here's the deal, I'll give away:

First Prize: Your choice of one of any of the books I've reviewed/interviewed/guest posted on this blog including the upcoming The Replacement. AND a ten page manuscript critique.

Second Prize: Either a book (see above) OR a critique - your choice!

All you have to do is comment with an entry total. 1 for commenting. 1 for Tweeting. 2 for blogging about it. AND OF COURSE 1 for each $1 you donate to my friend. Just click the link on my sidebar (where it says clicky clicky) to donate. Entries open to US residents only though - sorry guys!! The contest is open until Sunday November 14th at noon EST. I'll announce the winners next Monday!! Please help us out in supporting this incredible cause!!

NOW to Monday Madness:

Lydia Kang is not only a sweet and amazing blogging buddy, she's also an actual doctor! One of my favorite posts of the week is reading Lydia's answers to medical questions for writers on her blog. It's fascinating! And who doesn't have a character with some medical issue or another?

This is what Lydia has to say about herself:

I'm the mother of three kids who exercised my parental muscle (you must read this!) to get my son addicted to Harry Potter. I work part time as an internal medicine doc, and am an unabashed geek about sciencey stuff.

I can cook a fantastic spaghetti puttanesca, knit, crochet, garden, draw, play piano, and used to be in a feminist a capella group in college. No, I won't sing those songs for you, because my family will go into hiding from embarrassment. I grew up in Maryland but spent most of my adult life in New York City until I moved to Omaha five years ago. And now...I'm a happy midwestern Asian gal. Go figure!

Writing is my therapy. I love writing poetry, creative non-fiction (usually related to patient care) and YA fiction. Within YA fiction, I love to read just about anything but horror (I'm a scaredy-cat) and outside of YA, I read just about anything but non-fiction (because I fall asleep) and horror (because it wakes me back up, but not in a good way).

I love my blogging writing community. They rock!

Now obviously Lydia is not just a "jack" of all trades. She's a master of all trades. And what kind of creature can do everything? One that took a special concoction laboriously constructed in the lair of a MAD SCIENTIST, that's who. At least that's my suspicion. Super smart, super everything. There you have it folks. Lucky for us though, I don't think Lydia is the kind of Mad Scientist that tries to destroy the world - just make it better.