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I have been a professional writer for over ten years, and am most well-known for my Shadowrun novels. It's almost a shame to classify my fiction writing as work, because I absolutely love creating characters and building plots. I adore crafting stories, and in addition to the aforementioned novels I've written and published a modicum of short fiction in the speculative fiction genres. Here's a complete bibliography of my published work.
For a while I was riding high, having fun writing and getting paid to do it. I became a bit of celebrity among Shadowrun fandom, and was interviewed for two different online publications. In fact I was doing so well that I had quit my day job and (in my hubris) had even written down my Secrets of Writing Professionally.
Unfortunately, due to events in my personal life, I haven't been writing much lately. And in fact the last novel I wrote under my own name was Creation's Daughter — a foray into the thriller market, a foray full of the excitement of trying something new, something big, but fraught with uncertainty and with ... well, frankly, lack of funds. The book didn't sell — or I should more rightly say, 'it hasn't sold ... yet.' Heh.
So I started bookdoctoring with my good friend, long-time editor Don Gerrard. Through Thriller Doctor, I critiqued and edited prospective novel manuscripts, advised and revised thrillers, and I even ghostwrote an entire thriller novel. Sadly, with the crashing economy, bookdoctoring can't completely pay the bills. So I am currently looking for a steady writing gig that pays regularly, and meanwhile I have branched into the web and print media business. My partner, Karawynn Long, and I have created Viridian City Media — phenomenal corporate power ... itty bitty office space.
Additionally, I have gone back to my day job as a research scientist. I am currently working in the Stahl laboratory which usually does environmental microbiology, although I have participated in projects in such diverse areas as antiterrorism biothreat detection and most recently — in collaboration with NASA — surveying the spacecraft assembly areas (hangars at JPL etc.) for the diversity of microbial contamination. NASA wants to know what Earth organisms they're sending into space and to other planets.