News:

I’ve finished revising Seek the Monster.  It’s now out to a few people for more beta-reading, and potentially another round of editing.  For a few days after I finished, knowing that the work I’d done was good, there was the inevitable let down.  This time was possibly worse: I worried that I didn’t have another story in me.  A book that had been chattering at me for a while still had no plot—nothing I could work with.  The main character just wasn’t loud enough.  Then, an idea resurfaced.  A scene, and backstory—but it has so much more to work with.  With one scene, and a few more cropping up, I have enough to work with, to play with. 

And I am grateful!

About Me:

I am a writer. I write mythopoeia mainly using fantasy fiction, but I have ventured into science fiction, as well as contemporary suspense, and paranormal suspense. However, I am most comfortable with fantasy. Currently I only have two short stories published, but I have finished eight drafts for novels, and am working to improve on my craft.

The stories are allegorical adventures written in the planet Ihyel. I have been building this world since high school, when I wrote my first novel. It was written on a Kaypro, and subsequent moves I lost most of the novel. However, the beginnings of the language Geberesh started around high school as well. Recently, while looking over my high school yearbooks, I discovered that a highly regarded poet former classmate also created her own language.

Geberesh is a glossopoeia (or conlang) that helps me explore a philosophy of perception that is echoed in all of the works of the Ihyel. Perhaps it was silly to create a language to do this, when world building could be sufficient, but I didn't know words that could describe what I was seeing. I could say I have kids, live in Georgia, number my cats, but the truth is that what best describes me are my novels.