I'm nobody--who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us--don't tell.
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody.
How public like a frog to shout your name
The livelong day
To an enquiring bog.
--Emily Dickinson
So, now you know--I like Emily Dickinson. I like lots of other poets, too, because if you want to be a writer you need to know how to use the tool of language, and nobody does that better than a good poet.I'm a writer. I have three novels published, have worked for newspapers, have the first draft of a fourth novel finished and am working on two more. I also have three very sensual romance novellas published.I'm also an editor and a trade book publisher, which means I have to schedule my writing time. Doesn't matter, as long as I get to do it. If I don't, I start to feel like you do when there's something important you needed to do and forgot. Or maybe it's withdrawal symptoms.Two of my novels are part of a fantasy trilogy called The Everdark Wars. The first is Dreams of Darkness; the sequel is Shadow of the Scorpion. Third one is The Ugly Princess, which was translated into Swedish last year and actually sells a few copies now and then.I have one husband, three cats, four children and four grandchildren, silvery hair and blue eyes. The rest, as Anne MacCaffrey says, is subject to change without notice.
