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About Me

I am a novelist-musician-poet-dreamer-schemer lost in the concrete jungle of New York... Who knows if I'll ever be seen again... Seriously, I am a book addict and a music addict. I love words and the sounds that they can be put to. To pay the bills, I am a nanny, which can be funner than fun and can make you feel like you're trapped in the lowest pits of hell. Most of the time, it's fun. Obviously, I am (currently) a struggling artist.Take the quiz:
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Sylvia Plath
You are Sylvia Plath. You killed yourself while raising small children, shame on you! How selfish. Very accomplished poet in her early years, but then started getting rejection letters after a while. You write what you feel and your work is not hard to figur out. You are very intelligent and take glory in getting awards. You need acceptance to feel good you need to love yourself. Get that Scorpio self-confidence that you have deep inside! You might have not killed yourself. Whatever you will do in life will be discovered and celebrated after you are dead.
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Patricia McKillip, Damien Rice, Joanne Harris, Fiona Apple, Susanna Clarke, Tori Amos, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Connelly, Charles de Lint, Garth Nix, Daniel Radcliffe, and Tony DiTerlizzi.

My Blog

The novel

So, a number of you know that I wrote a novel. It's been edited a couple times over now, and I'm working on putting together a submission package. In light of that, I've written a synopsis of my novel...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 15:44:00 GMT

Fourth of July

So, it's the Fourth of July. A paid holiday. Celebrating our freedom and all that. The glory of America, or something. For me (and I think for many of us), Fourth of July is a bit of an awkward holida...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:55:00 GMT

It's been a while...

I guess I haven't felt the need to say much lately. Or, more likely, I haven't known how to properly express the things that have been happening in my head and my heart, so I've stayed quiet, waiting ...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:31:00 GMT

A story

I just read a short story about a dead woman who is terribly lonely and alone haunting the street she died on. Then a young man comes along and, for a brief moment, he sees her. He really SEES her. An...
Posted by on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:15:00 GMT

I'm speechless!!!

I GOT A JOB!!!! A real job in publishing!!! I will be the Assistant to the Managing Editor at St. Martin's Press. In the Flatiron Building in New York City. I will have a real paycheck and insurance a...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:13:00 GMT

I'm finished!!!

I'm finished with the serious rewrite/edit of my novel! FINISHED! I'm really excited (obviously, with all the exclamation points). Now I will do a quick once-over to tighten it up a little more, do so...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:46:00 GMT

A realization

Neil Gaiman is doing a talk/reading/signing thing tonight. Here. Tonight. It's a quandary really, to go or not to go. I'm leaning toward not. There will be a bajillion people there. I was NOT impresse...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:26:00 GMT

Looking for a little help

Here's my problem in a nutshell: I'm working on the climactic chapter of my novel, and I'm feeling a bit stuck. I'm rewriting a portion of it and I'm not feeling very inspired. So here is my question....
Posted by on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:29:00 GMT

Summertime

So, a lot's been happening, and nothing's been happening, all at once. Things for me, personally, seem to be stagnant. I am still searching for employment, but nothing has happened. I am still (...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:48:00 GMT

Down with reality!!!

I have had it with reality. So, I have a proposition. I have decided to run away into the country and start a hippie commune. It'll be in a big, rambling house in the middle of nowhere with loads of p...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 07:49:00 GMT