Please contact me at the email address below for a professional writing/editing bio if you need one.
The artwork on the left is “The Love Potion” by the fabulous Evelyn de Morgan, just because.
Personal Bio (please see note about about a professional one above): I’m originally from Brooklyn, NYC, but now I live in Minneapolis with my partner Jana, an amazingly talented book artist, and a cat or two. When not writing, I work as a professional computer geek. In former lives, I owned a feminist bookstore (Grassroots Books in Iowa City) and spent some time living in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Mexico. I used to work as a professional archaeologist and before that, I worked at a bar in St. Louis that that claimed to have the world’s largest collection of Elvis memorabilia outside Memphis. I started writing professionally in 1996 when I was in law school. I sold the first story I ever wrote and quit law school a week or two later.
More fun facts:
I’m a former member of the Arise! Bookstore collective and a current member of the following: The Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA), the Erotic Authors Association (EAA), Broad Universe and Romance Writers of America (RWA).
Some miscellaneous info about the aforementioned: Arise! is one of a shrinking number of independent bookstores. As a former bookstore owner myself and frequent bookstore visitor, the survival of indies is near and dear to my heart. Please support your remaining local independent bookstores; their survival is essential for new writers and nonmainstream voices to be heard. That said, Arise! rocks! Check out their website at the link below.
JASNA is an organization that celebrates the life and works of Jane Austen, one of my favorite writers. In addition to talking about Jane, we also discuss other related topics such as the history and culture of the time period, writers influenced by Jane, art, architecture and so forth. And then there are the tea parties. I like me a good cup of tea. And scones. Did I mention the scones?
Writers’ organizations like EAA and RWA are good and useful things to belong to at any stage of your writing career. At their best, they provide information about contracts, agents and calls for stories, as well as being there to help you out if you run into agent or publisher trouble. Find one that seems most useful to you and sign up.
Please take a look at my other pages for yet more stuff. Thanks for stopping by!
Getting in touch with me: clundoff@visi.com
My blogs: Catherine at LiveJournal and at MySpace and at Redroom.com.
Links and such:
Arise! Books and Resource Center
