Birthdate? January 3rd, 1973.
When did you start writing? I did a Bachelor of Arts majoring in creative writing and media, but I didn't do anything with it after graduating. Years later I created a fantasy city called Teleleli or Telelee as a background for role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Once I finished I realized there wasn't any demand for it. My ex suggested I write stories instead, and that's how I got started. Along the way I realized that my poems were better received, so I'm concentrating on them now.
When and what and where did you first get published? I had a poem in an anthology called Journeys to the Point some time in the 90s. But my first publication after I started writing again last year was when I sold a story of 22 words to Nanoism, a website which prints fiction of 140 characters or less. It was called 'With This Device', and it was a science fiction story about time travel.
What themes do you like to write about? I write about cats a lot. But I'm a lot more cynical about them than some cat-lovers. One reviewer (of my collection The New Death and others) said he couldn't work out whether I loved cats or hated them.
What books and/or stories have most resonated with you as an author? Why?
How do these stories and their characters find expression in your work?
JRR Tolkien and Jack Vance: The elaborate dialogue.
Robert E Howard: The general atmosphere of decay.
Terry Pratchett: The humour.
Lord Dunsany: The use of Fame, Time and so on as characters.
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