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Do you have any new publications or recognition?
I have a blog coming out and I’m very excited about it! “Bitches of
Yore” will be my no-holds-barred, in-your-face, laugh-out-loud (at
least, I’ll be laughing) look at historical and contemporary fiction by
and about women.
Are you working on anything that would encourage community
participation?
Before COVID, I was helping to coordinate this year’s Writers Resist!
event. I hope we won’t need it in 2021, but if we do, I’ll gladly put it
on.
What other interests do you have and does this inform your work?
Right now, I’m most interested in ending this pandemic so I can leave
my house again. Please, everyone, wear a mask!
I’m a Francophile, which has definitely influenced my choice of heroines
and locales.
I’m an opera buff, which feeds my flair for drama; a news junkie (I
worked as a print journalist for more than 30 years), which distracts me
from writing as much as I could, and a storyteller, which means I talk
a lot.
I play classical piano badly.
The poster from her last show, depicted in JOSEPHINE BAKER’S LAST DANCE, 1974
I love to cook and I’m good at it (if I must say so myself); and I enjoy
wine way too much for my own good.
I need to travel and can’t wait for the pandemic to end so I can take my
Remote Year 12-month trip around the world.
I love to dance on a dance floor filled with people: even when the band
is playing the blues, everyone on the dance floor is smiling.
Do you have another form of employment or avocation, community
involvement that shapes your life?
I was one of the founding board members of Spokane Area National
Organization for Women a few years ago. I was very active for a time
and found activism stimulating and rewarding, but after a while the
younger generation took the reins. I’m still a member, and I’m still a
mouthy feminist broad.
For money, I write about technology and cybersecurity for companies
that sell those things. It’s mostly very interesting, and my clients are
terrific people. My tech knowledge inspired my near-future-science-fiction
story “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry,” published in the Spokesman-Review’s
“Summer Stories” series in 2019. I had so much fun writing it
that I’ve contemplated doing more stories like it. If only I could clone
myself. Wait — that could be a great story!
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