I think people enjoy a series. When you like a story, many readers want more of the same, which is dandy, if the author and the characters have more to say.

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

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.

All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.

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.