Profile

I was born in Canada, grew up in California, and have traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, and Australia (including a stint in Sydney for two-and-a-half years, first as a university exchange student and then while working for a well-known database software company). Besides traveling, my other great interests are reading, anime/manga, history, and archaeology.

I'm an award-winning (and almost completely obscure) published author of fantasy and historical fiction.

My sister accuses me of writing historical fiction as an excuse to buy books and do research! I currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I am owned by a small but very bossy parrot. I pay for the birdseed by working as a technical writer while waiting for my books to hit the NYT Bestseller List.