I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.

When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.