My Dad's family was Italian, my Mom's, mostly Irish, which made for a hot-tempered childhood. But I've found myself mellowing lately. I don't really understand why, and although it's much less stressful, occasionally I miss a really good knockdown, dragout, screaming match. (My husband most emphatically does not.)
I began the way so many writers do, by reading each and every written thing I could get my hands on. From stacks of comic books, (hundreds for a few dollars at tag sales!) to all kinds of tattered paperbacks. This led to Tolkien and Twain (hey, if you grow up in Connecticut, you have to read Twain), and an early high school romance led to SF, by way of Frank Herbert's Dune.
I wrote my first SF story (long-lost, thank heavens) in high school, but had no clue what to do with it once it was done. Yeah, I read Asimov's, and Science Fiction and Fantasy (which at the time was edited by Edward Ferman, and had an address of Cornwall, Connecticut-which was my hometown-you'd think I'd have a clue)
But it took two marriages and three children before I decided it was now or never, and I wrote my first novel. That was when I found out how little I knew about writing. I set myself to learning, and it's a never-ending process. Each and every piece I write teaches me something new. After all, who can truly say, "I know it all"?
Favorite Non-Genre Authors: Billie Letts, Barbara Kingsolver, Jimmy Buffett, Bill Bryson, Maeve Binchy, Elizabeth Cadell, Mary Stewart, Agatha Christie
Favorite Genre Authors: Patricia McKillip, David Weber, Patricia C. Wrede, Terry Pratchett, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Tanya Huff
Favorite Books: The Book of Atrix Wolfe, The Riddlemaster trilogy, The Earthsea trilogy, Brimstone in the Garden, Airs Above the Ground, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Jurassic Park, The Once and Future King, A Salty Piece of Land
Favorite Movies: The Phantom Menace (I may be the only one to list that as a favorite!), U.S. Marshals, Sixteen Candles, Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Full Monty, Brassed Off, Jurassic Park, The Dish, Casablanca, The Manchurian Candidate, Camelot
Favorite Music: this changes frequently. Currently, Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, Trace Adkins, Gretchen Wilson, Eric Clapton, Bon Jovi, Bonnie Raitt, Carole King.
Favorite Things to Do When Not Writing: watch anime and read manga, crochet afghans, collect recipes, buy books, read online comics, browse Wikipedia, watch Star Trek re-runs, and, of course, read, read, read...
Favorite Possessions: my PDA, my Kakashi-sensei stuffed doll, my Amy Brown bookmark, my collection of beanie baby dogs, my Strider action figure, my books
Places I Want to See: Scotland and England, New Zealand, Greece, Rome, the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids, the Taj Majal...anywhere really.
Things I Want to Do: visit the Pearl Harbor Memorial, have a beer in the Leaky Cauldron, meet my BTP friends face-to-face (and you know who you are), drive across the U.S. coast-to-coast, stand on the Great Wall of China (can people do that?), play the slots in Vegas (just once!)
What's on my mousepad? The Gateway logo.
What's on my desktop? Also something that changes frequently, usually at least once a week. Currently, Kakashi Hatake.
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