My current project is a fantasy quartet, The Arisen Worlds. Book 2, Stranger in the Twisted Realm, is now on sale, and Book 3, Servant of the Lost Power, is on pre-order for a February 20, 2024 release. Book 4, soon thereafter! A tag line for the series that I sometimes use: There are hidden worlds—real worlds—that arose from myth. These kingdoms, such as the realms of witches and the elven, exist side-by-side with the modern world. Outsiders are forbidden to enter. Except for one woman, who is commanded to come.

 

Every career has highs and lows. For example, I have been a finalist for the Philip K. Dick award (Maximum Ice) and had a series optioned for film (The Dark Talents). I have abandoned no less than three novels and two elaborate concept treatments. I also brought one of them back to life after four years squirreled away in a file. I have walked away from a major publisher, killed a dog in a story, (boy, did I hear about that one!) and once published a novel in which I said that Vancouver was in northwest Canada.

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I'm a founding member of a writing organization that is now in its seventeenth year of helping aspiring writers: Write on the River in Wenatchee, Washington. We have zoom workshops as well as in-person events and are firmly integrated into the arts community here in Wenatchee.

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My husband and I have three children and a large tabby cat, Winston. (See picture, above.)We (husband and I) have a mutual love of science fiction and fantasy, history (thus the cat's name) and science. I have never been the sporty type, but have been known to play a round of golf. I am inordinately fond of road trips and in a banner year once went to Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon and Yosemite. Not much writing got done. That felt both guilty and immensely freeing.

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I am back in the trenches now.