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Reddy's Award Winning Book

Crossroadspub.com

26 JAN 01 - LOG

My bio reads like a training program to be an SF writer. I majored in 'everything' in the several times I went to college and I changed jobs with great frequency. After I'd learned the job, reorganized it to make sense, and integrated the output into the system more efficiently, I NEEDED to do something else. Kelly Services liked me and I stayed with them longer than any other employer.

I managed to 'postpone the inevitable' several decades by reading every SF book available. Right up until there were suddenly a huge number of them, and none of them satisfied me intellectually. Fan fiction 'saved my life.' It was rife with fresh ideas. Since that was what I was starving for, above average writing skill was dessert, very nice when you got it WITH sustenance.

At that time we were in Juneau. I knew exactly what was going on in the publishing industry because I was living with the cause. It was daily political debate in the capital of Alaska, in the Elks Lodge, in the Moose Lodge, the VFW... cheap paper would be gone at the end of the century. The EPA would grant no more extensions on the process that was poisoning the sea around pulp mills. The Forest Service wasn't going to renew clearcut permits.

When I wrote my first volume of fan fiction, I learned I was too good to play in that league. That didn't mean I was good enough to be a pro. Raw talent and very good basic skills are what I had to begin my training. I wrote all day everyday for almost seven years. That's when I expected e-publishing to have some stable good businesses. I wrote for e-publication. I write "romantic brain candy," fast-paced adventures to engage the minds of all the other 'smart girls' I hang out with at cons.