I dislike telephones, electric blankets, and bathroom renovations. I love living in the country, writing full-time, anything by Charles de Lint, Xena, Hercules, and email.

You're probably wondering how two reasonably intelligent adults can unintentionally acquire a Chihuahua. In the years since, we've purchased the house, buried two of the original cats, replaced them with three more felines and, unintentionally, acquired a Chihuahua. In 1992, after living in downtown Toronto, a city of nearly three million, for thirteen years, I moved with two large cats, one small psychotic cat, and my partner out to a rented house in the middle of nowhere. During those eight years, while working full-time, I wrote seven books (the first seven, except for the original draft of CHILD), and nine short stories. Spent eight years working at Bakka, North America's oldest surviving science fiction book store: Change Of Hobbit in California was actually a very little bit older but unfortunately it was a casualty of the recession in '91. We were competing for jobs with people who had up to five years experience. Received a degree in RADIO AND TELEVISION ARTS (B.A.A.) from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute: The year I graduated was the year that the CBC laid off 750 employees in Toronto alone. Unfortunately it happened a year after I left. They'd just opened it up to women and I figured it would be the first trade that would send women to sea. Spent three years in the Canadian Naval Reserve: I was a cook. Enough said for those of us who lived through it-and those who didn't seem to be getting another chance to fall off platform shoes. It was the late sixties, early to mid seventies. Raised, for the most part, in Kingston, Ontario. Or possibly with the fact that almost no one admits to being from Ontario… I think it's something to do with being born in sight of the ocean. 'Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia: Although I haven't actually lived 'down east' since just before my fourth birthday, I still consider myself a Maritimer.

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