Alexis Canto has taken over her family's dining room. She lives there and reigns as queen of a laptop keyboard at all hours of the night. She plays guitar occasionally, sings in the car a lot, and once cooked up her own batch of homemade deodorant.

Alexis no longer gets to compete in board games that involve wordplay because she always wins and it's no fun for anyone else. As a child she played Satan in a middle school stage production, but as a thirty-something author her only evil is a hardcore addiction to writing.