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Interests

General
Writing novels and short stories, primarily fantasy and science fiction. Drawing and painting in watercolor and digital. I usually paint scenes from the stories I write, but every once in a while the mood for something else will take me. Did I mention mermaids? Mermaids.
Music
All kinds, from '70s prog rock to classical. Regina Spektor, Gentle Giant, Apples in Stereo, The Commodores, The Cranberries, David Bowie, Dressy Bessy, Tilly and the Wall, Frank Zappa, Aesop Rock, Dandy Warhols, My Bloody Valentine, Garbage, Lacuna Coil, Itzhak Perlman, KT Tunstall, Moby, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, They Might Be Giants, Tori Amos, The Birthday Massacre, Ween, Weezer.
Books
Any fantasy or science fiction. In no particular order: Charles Stross, Caitlín R. Kiernan, China Mieville, Lois McMaster Bujold, Terry Pratchett, Susanna Clarke, Nick Sagan, Stephenie Meyer, Tad Williams, Paul Kearney, Garth Nix, Tobias Buckell, John Scalzi, J.K. Rowling, Robin Hobb, Tanith Lee, Neil Gaiman, Neal Stephenson, Scott Westerfeld, Umberto Eco, J.R.R. Tolkein, Poul Anderson, Steven Brust, Jodi Picoult, Patrick O'Brian, Jonathan Stroud, Robert E. Howard, Anne McCaffrey, Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Larry Niven, Daniel Keys Moran, Mary Renault, Cornelia Funke, Justine Larbalestier, Adele Griffin, Hal Duncan, Maureen Johnson, Gail Z Martin, Holly Black, Jasper Fforde, Raven Dane, Stephenie Meyer, Cara Lockwood, Diane Duane, Scott Westerfeld, Erica Orloff, Ally Carter, Elizabeth Bear, Aristotle, Isaac Asimov, Dan Simmons, Philip Pullman, Guy Gavriel Kay, Elizabeth Kostova, Steven Pressfield, Holly Lisle, Victor Hugo, Richard K. Morgan, and many others.

Latest Blog Entries

Feb 1, 2010 1:07 AM Saltwater Witch - new pages up!
Dec 8, 2008 12:00 PM Another 8 pages up for Saltwater Witch graphic novel
Oct 28, 2008 1:53 AM A Halloween Treat from Juno Books
Oct 19, 2008 7:48 AM Nanowhere update and illustrated version
Sep 15, 2008 8:52 AM Watercolor work in progress

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About me:

I write fantasy and science fiction and I paint in watercolor and digital formats. (See some of my art here and here).

My novel SEABORN came out in July from Juno Books!

Web site for Seaborn:
www.saltwaterwitch.com

My YA fantasy, SALTWATER WITCH is complete and with my agent.

Working like a whole hive of bees--super coordinated writing bees who like the sea--on The New Sirens, working title for the sequel to Seaborn.

I just won the Amateur Category of the Heinlein Centennial Short Fiction Contest with my short story, "Hammers and Snails."

I was born in Indiana, but as an army brat, I grew up all over: Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Presidio of San Francisco, France, Germany and Japan. I'm a software engineer and part time Aristotelian philosopher.

I blog at http://theophrast.us
My short stories have appeared in The Harrow, Another Realm, Ultraverse, Quantum Muse and others.
Nanowhere is an SF thriller I released under a Creative Commons license.

I sketch and paint scenes of the stories I write. Here's one of my portfolios

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Some of my latest paintings:

.. .. Kassandra:

King Eupheron:

Fiction

...that's gone somewhere other than postal round trips or taking up space on my computer:

Nanowhere - FREE EBOOK

Lykeion Books, 292 pages
ISBN 0977380726
April 2006 - Paperback and eBook

Short Stories

"Always Becoming"
The Harrow -Jan. 2006
Download the MP3 (17MB)

"Diminisher of Peace"
The Harrow -Sept. 2005
Download the MP3 (13MB)

PODCASTS

Diminisher of Peace

Always Becoming
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Who I'd like to meet:

Top of the list: Aristotle, but if you mean without a time machine: authors--of all kinds and pens because I read everything from SF to chick lit. Artists, again, from every corner of creation because I can't think of any direction art has gone that has failed to inspire me in some way. Oh, yeah, and mermaids. Where are all the mermaids?

Details

Status: Married
Here for: Networking, Friends
Body type: 6' 3" / Some extra baggage
Zodiac Sign: Virgo
Children: Proud parent
Education: College graduate
Occupation: Writer, artist, software engineer