I've always been interested in writing, but until I wrote Life Changes, I'd only written story starts in my memo books and dreamed but thanks to one of my children's friends, I was encouraged to actually write a story from start to finish and post it. That was the start of my writing career ... of fanfiction anyway. As many can tell from reading my work, my favorite character is Commander Ulysses Feral from the show SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron. I always felt he got short shrift on the show so I set out to write him in just about every situation I could think of. Thanks to me, there's now over a hundred fics dedicated to him and to my surprise I received an award in 2013 for being the most prolific writer by my fellow SWAT Kat writers. Yeah! Have written nearly 200 stories. Lots of them SWAT Kats, one naughty Top Cat, m/m Eureka piece, an Anita Blake/Potter crossover, a smattering of original pieces, and lots of non-fiction rants, opinions, and true life stories. Most of them not posted here can be found on WWOMB and DA.

PERSONAL INFO: Retired from USAF after 20 yrs in 1991. Owned and ran my own cat's only grooming parlor for 20 yrs, retired early 2010. Now completely retired, I write as often as my osteoarthritis in my hands will let me. I spend time improving my writing skills and joined a local writer's group. Have three daughters all in college. Putting present home on market to move to a quieter neighborhood this year (2015). Eventually, I want to publish an original novel. My writing genre is urban fantasy.

Favorite websites: Deviant Art; WWOMB (Wonderful World of Make Believe); SWAT Kats.us (forum); SWAT Kats Fan Fiction Archive; Fur and Fantasy; SWAT Kats Fan Art Archive, The Multifandom MPREG Archive; Fur Affinity; Kristen's SWAT Kat Art Gallery; and The SWAT Kat Encyclopedia. I use the same avatar on all of them.

PET Peeves/Dislikes - current genre of cartoons and TV programs; anime in all forms; getting old (yeah, isn't that true of a lot of us); bigoted, homophobic, and overly religious people.

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NANOWRIMO (National Novel Writer's Month): For those not familiar with this program, its a challenge to all writer's to try and write a novel in thirty days. Can be an original or fan fic. You begin on the 1st of Nov and try to get to 50,000 words by midnight on Nov 30th. It doesn't matter if your story isn't finished just as long as you reach 50k. You can purchase a T-shirt commemorating the win and get a free certificate of your win. Check out the site.

21 Nov 2011: First timer. Story: Shape Shifter's Nightmare, Words: 50,894, Completed by: Nov 20th.

20 Nov 2012: Story: Wolves of Arcanus, Arc Two, Words: 50,435

24 Nov 2013: Story: Wolves of Arcanus, Arc Two, second half, Words: 51,039

20 Nov 2014: Story: Old Magic, Words: 29,262 (unable to finish)

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Sep 2014 - Update. Well a lot has happened since my last entry. Got my eyes fixed so I see much better but due to too many bad things happening in my family, I haven't written anything nor attended a single writer's group meeting for more than a year. sigh.

Dec 2014 - Need this year to end. Too many deaths in family (aunts, uncles, sibling, cousin). Other bad luck: car broke down, had to buy new one, husband retired three years too early due to health issues, oldest daughter's engagement fell apart leaving her devastated and none of us having a good Christmas because of it. Not been writing as osteoarthritis has really restricted my typing abilities. It hurts a lot. It has truly been a terrible year for us.

Jan 2015 - Year hasn't been too bad so far. New car is great, all debts were paid off, taxes were filed and received refund, and getting home ready to sell. Needs some painting, power washing of siding, other minor repairs before putting on market in March. Hope this goes off well and we find a cool new home. Writing still on hold. Please note: Due to the strict rules on ff.net, I plan to move all my mature work to The Wonderful World of Makebelieve's site where the use of "mature" is accepted as long as it's marked correctly. Please check my work out there for those that like my more naughty stories. The only good news for my battered spirit are all you readers who have stood by me and still enjoy my work. You are the ones who have kept my dream of writing alive. Thank you. I hope to finish all those incomplete stories very soon.