When not traveling to find true stories about the places she goes and the people she meets, she says she writes lies. Fiction, actually. Burns-Bass' current work in progress is a novel called THE SWORD SWALLOWER'S DAUGHTER, an up-market literary adventure through culture and catastrophe. In addition to writing travel features and fiction, Burns-Bass is the founder and moderator of #litchat, a reader/writer discussion operated entirely through Twitter. She has acted as assistant editor of a national music magazine (CCM), written magazine cover features, personality profiles, music reviews, and food features, and is an active member of the Backspace writing community. Presented in partnership with LitChat Virtual Writers Workshop and Literary Salons.