I might as well call this section "More than you ever wanted to know"...

   Let's start off with the basics.  My name is Victoria Capano, I write as Victoria Krain.  I was born in Slovakia, Europe on June 12th, 1980.  Ever heard of it?  Well anyways, my parents, younger sister and I left Slovakia to move to Switzerland - I'm told that was the place to be back in 1986.  Only, somehow we ended up here - in Toronto, Ontario.  I have to add... I couldn't be happier.  As beautiful as Switzerland may be, Toronto feels like it's part of my soul - a piece that I could not be without.
   I'm married to my wonderful husband Danny, who puts up with all my day dreaming and encourages and supports me in everything that I do.  I usually talk out all my outlines, plots and characters with him - he even pretends to listen!  Sometimes.  
   He tells me that there is a statistic out that says men speak on average 7,000 words a day, while women need to get 20,000 words out on a daily basis.  Unfortunately, since he works all day and doesn't get home until later in the evening, I only have so much time to get mine in.  I try though - everyday.
   We have a cat - this is as much of a child as we can handle right now - her name is Sasha.  Let me clarify right now - she is my first and only cat.  I really didn't know that cats could be the spawn of Satin...but she makes me believe it.  I love her, don't get me wrong, but be afraid... be very afraid.  
   I never wanted to be a writer - ever!  Yeah that's right.  I wanted to be the CEO of a major corporation that would not survive without my excellent leadership - and they would insist that my requested $5,000,000.00 salary is just not enough.  Oh, oh, and then I wanted to open up a bakery.  Yeah, I would be happy covered in flour from head to toe just so that I could bake a cake - not even for a profit - I would do it for free.  Well, okay... someone would have to pay the bills - but hey.  
   In college my wonderful English teacher told me that I should think about going  into writing.  I laughed - after all, who wrote for a living?  What would I tell my parents?  That I wanted to become a starving artist?  I don't think so.  So I ignored her and went into management instead.  Yeah, yeah, for the record...I don't regret it.  I loved my job... until it started to stress the hell out of me.  I had a solution though, I read.  
   I went through at least a book a day trying to lose myself in someone else's life - anyone else's.  My wonderful husband and family were great, my work on the other hand, was killing me! 
   I read every kind of mystery and horror novel, and then somehow I stumbled on my first romance.  I don't know how, or when exactly, but after just one book I was hooked.  I needed the happy ending I knew was just beyond the next page.  Yup, it was my drug of choice.  I read on every break at work and every waking moment - and sometimes I would stay up throughout the night just to get to the end.
   My sister always joked that I have more romance books than the bookstores, which - I'm blushing - is true.  So when I saw two books by an author I didn't recognize, and didn't own - I was compelled to read them.
   I got through the first one stunned - it was by far the worst book I have ever read.  It was catastrophic!  So I read her second book - which I got half way through before I just had to stop - It was beyond brutal.  I am ashamed of owning these 2 books, but yet they still sit on my bookshelf.  As much as I wanted to burn them, I picked them up instead and put them in with my favourites.  I can write a better book, I thought to myself.  And then one day I thought - Why not now?
   So I quit my job.  That's right.  I quit my job.  I told my my parents, sister, friends and husband that I was going to be a writer - just like that.  To my absolute shock, my family was 100% supportive - my husbands eye stopped twitching within a day!  I also learned that my dad had always wanted to be a writer when he was younger, something that I had never known - nobody had.
   I now find myself writing daily, like a mad woman - trying to get some of those 20,000 words on paper.  I am a member of Romance Writer's of America, Toronto Romance Writers and the Kiss of Death Chapter.  I love what I'm doing now, but I have to apologize ahead of time if 75% of the men in my books are some form of law enforcers.  What can I say?  I love my men in uniform - especially the one's that carry handcuffs!