zhai - Profile (original) (raw)

on 11 March 2002 (#492827)

Sword of Fire and Sea, high magic adventure fantasy debuting June 21, 2011 from Pyr Books! Click here to preorder with Amazon!
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I'm a game designer and freelance writer currently living in northern California with the wonderful jsridler and our parrots and dog. I've got a few bios littered around the web, but you can always google stalk me, too. It'd be cool if you emailed me if you did so, but I've given up asking people to actually make contact. Ah, Internet anonymity...

If you'd like to read some of what I think about a bunch of things, see this 2009 interview with Charles Tan. Thanks, Charles!

Standard disclaimer, this is a personal journal, and most of it is "friends only", which means you need to sign up for a livejournal and then add me to your friends list. I generally add back people who drop me a comment introducing themselves, and then you can see, as they say, the inside shit. I like meeting new people and especially connecting with folk who share my interests, so please don't be shy.

I'm rather terrible at keeping this up to date, but if you're looking for my writing, here are a few semi-recent pointers:

Novels

Fiction

And just for bonus, my tag link at the Escapist, affirming my laziness in updating this page!

Appearances -- yep, tacking this on here

"Caught between the sweet life and nefarious necessity..."

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