SF Girl

• Gender: Female
• Industry: Environment
• Occupation: SF writer/environmental consultant
• Location: Vancouver : B.C. : Canada

About Me

I'm your alien next door...no really...that's what my neighbours tell me and who am I to gainsay them. Let's look at the evidence: when my brother told me that my parents found me in the field behind my house, I set him straight: I'm really from Mars, I said, just visiting this planet to study humans and report back to the mother ship. He must have told EVERYONE because people keep asking me where the mother ship is. When I grew up, I became a scientist AND a story teller; either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your point of view of these two :-D ... I love garlic and chocolate (and not always together). I enjoy walking in the rain and the smell of the earth after a rainstorm. I love the two equinox seasons and the crazy danse of fall leaves in the wind. I love this planet, Earth, and I pray we all take good care of it for our children and their children.

You can punch a hole in an apple using a straw. How do you think that makes your milkshake feel?

That it would rather be shaken, not stirred...

Interests

• writing
• reading
• drawing
• walks in the forest or along the ocean
• surfing the net
• making bad jokes
• cooking wierd dishes my son doesn't like
• travelling and meeting people
• playing with my very large cat and dousing my arms with antiseptic

Favorite Movies

• Doctor Zhivago
• Solaris
• 2001: a Space Odyssey
• The Duellists
• Kingdom of Heaven
• Far from the Madding Crowd
• Galaxy Quest
• Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Austin Powers (all of them)
• The Inconvenient Truth
• Schindler's List

Favorite Music

• mostly funky new-age/jazz fusion
• Enya
• Dido
• some hip hop
• classical music
• and hard rock like Led Zeppelin and Metallica; opera
• particularly Sarah Brightman (Classics)

Favorite Books

• anything by Thomas Hardy (what
• you don't know who Thomas Hardy is?!?)
• everything by Ray Bradbury (he's my hero and I got to shake his hand even!)
• Chocolat by Joanne Harris
• The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
• Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
• so many others I've forgotten them all...

My Blogs	Team Members
The Alien Next Door
Pixl Press