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Fantasy, mystery, historical fiction, paranormal fiction, urban fantasy, thrillers, history, folklore, mythology, travel, Celtic music, harp, opera, madrigals, lute music, Siamese cats, gardening, traditional music pubs, mead making
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Traditional Celtic music, Renaissance madrigals, Mozart opera, classical. Favorite musicians include Kim Robertson (Celtic harp), Loreena McKennitt (world music, ballads), Kiri Te Kanawa and Rene Fleming (sopranos), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone, one of the best interpreters of art song EVER), Solas (Irish trad group)
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"And Ideal Husband" (based on an Oscar Wilde play); "Persona, " a Berman movie that, as my first experience with "film, " completely blew me away; The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars Episodes 4-6
Television
House, Numb3rs, and Medium are the only shows I watch on anything approaching a regular basis.
Books
Yikes. I probably read about 200 books a year, and the range is very broad. A few of the authors whose work I enjoy are Jim Butcher, Philippa Gregory, Bernard Cornwell, Neil Gaiman, George R.R. Martin, Amy Tan, Guy Gavriel Kay, Charlaine Harris, Greg Keyes, Kelley Armstrong, Andrew Vacchs, Ian McEwan, Sue Monk Kidd, Sharon Kay Penman, Lady Antonia Fraser, Mark Twain, Sir Thomas Malory. Using MySpace profile as an indicator, people who read my books also tend to read R.A. Salvatore, Ed Greenwood, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks, and J.R.R. Tolkein.

Latest Blog Entries

Feb 24, 2012 4:36 PM CROSSING THE STREAMS, a multi-author contest and book giveaway
Feb 5, 2012 11:15 AM HONOR BOUND, the 2nd Tales of Sevrin book, now available
Oct 28, 2011 9:27 AM EVERMEET scheduled for ebook release
Sep 16, 2011 12:06 PM Free Fiction Friday
May 30, 2011 8:45 AM HONOR AMONG THIEVES

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About me:

I live in a fantasy world. Several of them, in fact. For about fifteen years now, I've been wandering around in the Forgotten Realms. These travels have been chronicled in a dozen or so novels. I spent several months in a galaxy far, far away while writing Dark Journey, the tenth book in the New Jedi Order series of Star Wars books. Recently I made a foray into Norrath, the setting of the EverQuest game, to write The Blood Red Harp, a fantasy adventure story filled with elves, necromancers, music and mayhem. A dark fantasy version of Providence, Rhode Island is the setting for my Changeling Detective series: Shadows in the Darkness and Shadows in the Starlight. My short stories range from historical to mysteries, ghost stories to Arthurian fantasy. Yeah, I'm indecisive--it's a character flaw. Here's a SLIDE SHOW of some of my book covers:

Who I'd like to meet:

Who would I like to meet on MySpace? Fellow readers, mostly, particularly those who read fantasy, mystery, paranormal, and historical fiction. Who would I like to meet at various and sundry points along the space/time continuum? Lilith, the first wife of Adam (yep, Eve was a trophy wife) who went on to become a demon and succubus. You've gotta admit that's a pretty impressive second career. Taliesin, the famous bard whom Arthurian legend (sometimes) considers the father of Merlin. O'Carolan, the blind harper who created some of the most beautiful melodies in Ireland's history. Elizabeth I. James VI of Scotland. The whole gamut of Renaissance scientists and mystics--Tycho Brahe, Parcelus, John Dee, Cornelius Agrippa. Jumping ahead a few years, there's Oscar Wilde, and a few more, Dorothy Parker. I'd love to meet all these people--but not all at the same time. Mrs. Parker would probably make a smartass remark about Lilith, and that could go wrong in more ways than I care to contemplate.

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Status: Married
Zodiac Sign: Leo

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