I'm a writer of novels, short stories, essays, magazine articles, and poetry. Most of my writing is in the realm of speculative fiction--fantasy, science fiction, and subgenres therein. Since technology hasn't created a way for me to beam fresh baked goods around the internet (yet), I invite you to instead browse my published material online in the bibliography.
The Catch A Star As It Falls Blog is updated several times a week with publication news, cookie recipes, and somewhat-coherent ramblings.
If you're curious about who I am, head over to the biography section. That's also where you find out how to contact me.
To summarize my background: I'm a girl from Hanford, California (and no, that's not near L.A. or San Francisco) who married a Navy sailor and moved from coastline to coastline. Now that sailor is a happy civilian, and we're settled down in scalding-hot Arizona. Our son is number-obsessed and our two cats are insane. I bake. I write. I dance, badly.
Welcome to everyone visiting my site because of the article in the West Valley View! If you click on the bibliography, you'll find many of my stories available to read for free, and others you can order through Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Feel free to say hi on my blog or friend me on Twitter or elsewhere. Thanks so much for dropping by!
Recent publications
My tale of a sentient, enchanted house, "213 Myrtle Street", can be read at Flash Fiction Online.
"Red Dust and Dancing Horses" can be found in March 2012's Stupefying Stories.
One of my very first publications can be found in print in Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Presents Flush Fiction: 88 Short Short Stories You Can Read in a Single Sitting. Look for "Brains for Breakfast."
My poem "Six Months After" can be read for only 99-cents in the March 2012 issue of OG's Speculative Fiction.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Boost Your Brain Power! is out on May 22nd, and includes my story "Book Brain." It's about fighting through my post-partum brain drain and re-discovering my love of reading.
Forthcoming publications
In 2012 I'll have stories in Daily Science Fiction, Trust and Treachery Anthology, Eschatology Journal, and Big Pulp. My poetry will also be in Abyss & Apex, Every Day Poets, Space and Time Magazine, and MindFlights.
In 2013 (wow, it's weird to type that) I'll have a poem in Bete Noire Magazine. More good news to come!
- Active member SFWA
- International Thriller Writers
- Codex Writers
- Write1Sub1