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Fun facts about me

If you’re here, you probably already know I write books and short fiction. Here are some other fun facts about me:

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I’m a mom. Okay, that’s not a super fun fact, I guess. But it’s true, and if you’re also a parent fighting for writing time against all your other obligations, I see you.

I’m a professional user/customer experience writer and writing community leader. I work at a Fortune 500 insurance company, transforming business-y, legal-sounding communications into readable, inclusive, plain language that customers can actually understand.

I have aphantasia. If you don’t know the term, it’s technically a neurodivergence wherein I have no visual imagination whatsoever. I made a video about being a fantasy writer with aphantasia, since one of the questions I get most often is “how do you write such immersive stories if you can’t even see them in your head?!?!”

I was a big-time theater and music kid. I sang first soprano in choirs all through my childhood & young adult years, and I did theater productions up until college. My favorite role was as the titular character in Evita. These days, I’ve left the theater and my singing mostly happens in karaoke apps.

I once had fanart published in Tokyopop magazine, back when it was still MixxZine. Issue 1-5, April 1998. I did a pencil drawing of Kai from Ice Blade. Should I have been reading Ice Blade at age thirteen? ABSOLUTELY.