I'm a new writer of science fiction and adventure tales. I also make occasional forays into fantasy and realistic fiction. I love post-apocalyptic settings, utopias and dystopias, coming-of-age stories, and stories about underdogs struggling against the machine.
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there are mermaids

Well, this post is long overdue, but better late than nevah! Back in March, I attended a three day workshop in Madison, WI (“The Fire in Fiction”) with superagent Donald Maass and bestselling author Nalo Hopkinson.

I first heard Mr. Maass speak at the Surrey Writers Convention in 2007. It was an hour-long workshop [...]

news & progress

I started spelling the title of my WIP as Sweetheartcatalyst, all one word. It looks better to me that way. I dunno, maybe I’ll change it later. Maybe not.

So my official word count is now a little over 16K. Yay! It helped that I was able to copy and paste a few scenes [...]

amwriting. slowlybutsurely.

Whoa, haven’t made a post here in quite a while. For that, I blame the Giant Home Improvement Project I’ve been embroiled in for the last month and a half. My husband and I have transformed the second floor of our house–from a very gray, dull and office-like setting, to a space that’s full [...]

New Zealand is brimming with spec fic talent

The Sir Julius Vogel Award

I’d like to give a shout-out to my good friend Ripley Patton, who just won the 2010 Sir Julius Vogel Award for best short story (for her piece Corrigan’s Exchange), tying with last year’s winner Grant Stone.

The Sir Julius Vogel Awards are New Zealand’s National Science Fiction [...]

Spring 2010 update

Accepted!

Algae, my story about love, art, and iron mining on the frigidly cold planet Diamanta, was recently accepted to the Distant Worlds anthology of novella-length science fiction (to be published by The Library of Science Fiction and Fantasy Press). This will be my second published story, and my first story to appear in [...]

Gung Hee Fat Choy! Happy Chinese New Year!

As of December 2008 I’m officially a published author. I have one (1) short story out there in the world. I guess it’s a very small thing, but it feels pretty good.

The piece is called “He Learned How” and you can read it online here. In the story, A.J. is sixteen and gay [...]