All About Me
I'm the author of the Forgotten Worlds Books series. The first book in the series, The Emerald Tablet, is scheduled to come out in October 2008. The second and third books are scheduled to come out in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
Let's see.
My best memories from elementary school include dressing up as Betsy Ross for the Bicentennial (first grade for me), The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, (third grade here), and dissecting a frog (on to fourth grade).
Middle school brought "Punk Day" (only three people dressed up - including me), school dances, and Gone With The Wind (I read it seven times and dressed up as Scarlett O'Hara).
In high school, I led the Varsity cheerleading squad, took Astronomy (yes, we had a planetarium), and dissected a pig (what is it about dissection)?
I dreamed about digging up Pompeii, but I never did.
After graduating high school, I headed to Virginia Tech for a Computer Engineering degree. (I had fun, but did manage to study also.) And, just before graduating, I decided I wanted to be an archaeologist, so I spent another year getting a History degree. Then it dawned on me engineering may pay better, so I went on to get my Electrical Engineering Masters degree.
What do I do now? I live in Austin, TX with my husband, two kids, Yorkshire Terrier Cissy, and sulcata tortoise King Tort.
I used to design chips (not the baked variety, and certainly not
ruffled), but now I write full time (along with spending lots of time with the family). Sure, I'm still tempted to head out to
one-hundred-degree heat to dig up bits of clay pottery; that urge will probably never go away.
Or maybe I'll go to Egypt. I've heard there are mummies basically popping out of the ground there.
Or India to see the Indus River valley.
Or South America, to look up the Incas.
I guess I better stop.
Interviews
August 2008 Book Review ManiacAugust 2008 Trainspotting Reads
February 2008 The Edge of The Forest