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This blog is mostly about writing and teaching, with the occasional vignette or bit of news about other parts of my life.

I'm a writer, an escaped academic, a grown-up army brat, an ambivalently entrepreneurial private tutor, a new mother, a longtime wife, an initiated Wiccan priestess, and, it now seems, a committed blogger.

I have the longest attention span you'll find anywhere outside a Buddhist monastery.

Drollerie Press published the first two novellas in my Rugosa Coven series, Closing Arguments and Atlantis Cranks Need Not Apply. An as-yet-untitled third novella will be out as an e-book later in 2010, as will a print volume collecting all three Rugosa Coven novellas.

Two sword and sorcery stories, "The War of the Wheat Berry Year" and "The Imlen Bastard," will be in forthcoming issues of Black Gate. The October issue of Baen's Universe ran my Halloween (not Samhain!) story, "New Jersey's Top Ghost Tours Reviewed and Rated." My first attempt at podcasting, the short story How the Grail Came to the Fisher King, can be found on Membra Disjecta, Drollerie Press's e-zine.

My poetry has appeared in Calyx, Feminist Studies, Free Lunch, and Beloit Poetry Journal.

In my other life, when I was a scholar, I gave papers at the annual conferences of the Modern Language Association and the American Academy of Religion. I gave a paper at the Parliament of the World's Religions once, but I was scheduled opposite the Dalai Lama. Seriously, if you had to choose, would you go to hear the grad student from New Jersey, or the Dalai Lama? Yeah, me too.

After I'd been blogging as Dr. Pretentious for several years, I discovered there was a guy who used to play bass in a goth band under the same name. He's still using it on a couple of file sharing boards. I am not that guy.

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