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| Female |
| April 21 |
| Central North Carolina, USA |
At 55, I'm actively re-creating myself. I'm a self- and peer-educated writer. My favorite stories make me fall in love with the characters. I love writing stories that make me smile, laugh at myself, blush, and cry–but not all at once. I live in the US, and "come from" IL, IA, and GA, but NC's been home for the past 32+ years. To quiet my inner critic, I remind my muse that There Is No Audience. My therapist told me years ago that to move forward: Dare To Suck. Life's a challenge.  |
| Evolving. |
I've never had style. Why should my writing?  Maybe you can tell me? |
| Reading, editing, ornithology, baking, knitting, wild animals, vegan food, nature, weird stuff, and very occasionally, humans. |
| WDC SuperPower Reviewers Group; Writers with Pride; "Influential Member" Group |
| Fantasy/Sci-Fi, Urban Paranormal, LGBTQ+ Fiction/Romance... Enough with reality already! |
| My frequent re-reads/comfort books are: Shadows and Sunshine (Robin McKinley); The Fall of Ile-Rien (Martha Wells); Delemhach's House Witch books; The Last Binding (Freya Marske); The Kingston Cycle (CL Polk); The Edge Series (Ilona Andrews) |
| In addition to those who wrote my faves listed above: T. Kingfisher, Patricia Briggs, Martha Wells, T. Kingfisher, Lois McMaster Bujold, Neil Gaiman, NK Jemison, Terry Pratchett, Mark Twain, did I mention T. Kingfisher? |
| AE Housman... I've never studied poetry. In college I discovered Housman's "The loveliest of trees, the cherry now/is hung with blooms along the bow..." the only poem I've ever memorized–unless you count song lyrics (some of which I do). |
| Today, it is: “People cry, not because they are weak. It is because they've been strong for too long.“ ~Johnny Depp |
| Bowie, Queen, B-52s, the Cure, the Clash, Prince and The Artist Formerly Known As, Dropkick Murphys, The Town Pants, Indigo Girls, Amy Ray, P!nk, Brandy Carlisle, Lil Nas X, plus the Scissor Sisters and other appropriately timed queer dance music. |
| Classics: Desk Set (Hepburn/Tracy), Philadelphia Story (Hepburn/Grant/Stewart), El Dorado (John Wayne/), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Julie Andrews/Mary Tyler Moore). Newer: DEBS, A Room With A View, Tremors, Twister. |
| QI (Quite Interesting-A British Comedy Panel Show), Great British Baking Show, Midsomer Murders, Ted Lasso (Apple TV), Good Omens (2020 Amazon mini-series), Pride and Prejudice (1995 mini-series), Stranger Things (Netflix), Umbrella Academy (Netflix) |
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