I've been trying to trade biographies with someone young, gorgeous, and charismatic, but until then have to stick with the, uh, less glamorous truth: I was born in 1951, got a double BA in German and History, which included a year in Europe on a poor student budget (as in eating once a day). Eventually I earned  a masters in European history--to be told there were zero jobs for people like me. This was something us boomers heard our entire lives: "There are too many of you!" 

Among the many jobs I've turned a hand at were popcorn stand worker (after which I couldn't stand the sight or smell of popcorn for some thirty years), waitstaff,  nanny, bartender, and an electrical supply verifier—until, in the late seventies I capped quotations of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" with a screenwriter Harry Kleiner, who promptly offered me a job as his secretary. I wore various hats in the film industry before I went back to writing for print. 

To date I've published over fifty books, one of which was an Anne Lindbergh Honor Book; I've twice been a finalist for the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award and once a Nebula finalist. My romantasy Crown Duel has been continually in print since the early nineties.  I'm an instructor at Viable Paradise Writing Workshop on Martha’s Vineyard, and I've got a Patreon, where future volumes are being posted in rough draft. I've been a reader as long as I've been a writer, and enjoy reviewing books I love both here at Bookbub and at Goodreads.  My newsletter signup is here.

I belong to a writers' consortium at Book Vew Cafe--and really, really appreciate when readers buy my books there. We authors get 90% of the royalty, unlike everywhere else where publishers get the lion's share, and once you buy a book there, you own it. None of this "licensing as long as your account is good."