Adult Warning: These stories contain randy robots, naughty fairies and lawyers who fantasize about Star Trek. This quirky collection gathers the funniest fantasy and weirdest…

Saturday I was thrilled to be guest host on Alohomora, a podcast devoted to dissecting episodes of the Harry Potter Series. You can listen to…

The Jomon language in THE MEMORY THIEF is influenced by Japanese, Ainu and Chinese language. The Japanese and Chinese language was the easiest to research,…

The ideas in the Memory Thief series were percolating in my head for years before I got around to writing the novel. I have always…

People often ask me what steampunk is. I have steampunk belly dance performances. I create steampunk jewelry and costumes. I write steampunk stories and novels….

I write about monsters in my speculative fiction and I love to read about monsters. One of my favorite fairytales has always been Beauty and…

This summer I attended conferences (Gearcon, Worldcon, Norwescon and the Willamette Writers), presented writing and steampunk workshops, wrote a steampunk novel and edited another in the…

I decided to see if I could get an editor to meet with members of my critique group, Wordos, and me and let us buy…

My writing critique group, Wordos in Eugene is primarily made up of science fiction and fantasy short story authors. In the past, co-chairs of Wordos…

There were a lot of great things that came out of Worldcon such as networking, people coming to my author reading, and someone asking me…