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I write about smart girls, sad songs, and silly boys.

I’ve been a tech industry worker bee, a library clerk, a speculative fiction journal editor, an exhausted grad student, editor-in-chief at an indie comics company, director of PR and marketing at a larger indie comics company, a freelance pop culture writer, and a graphic novel reviewer — but all the while I have been writing stories.

I have lived all my life in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently share my space with my husband Brian Belew, son Mateo, daughter Mina, cats Jenny Flint and Philippa Purrip (Pippa), and a very lazy bearded dragon named Crackers. I graduated from San José State University’s creative writing program with a Master of Fine Arts degree and was the recipient of ...more

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	Put the Book Back on the Shelf: A Belle and Sebastian Anthology by Eric Stephenson (Editor), Rick Spears, Kako (Author/Illustrator) 3.23 avg rating — 393 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Womanthology: Space by Mariah Huehner (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ming Doyle, Stacie Ponder 3.50 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Clarence Principle by Fehed Said, Shari Chankhamma (Artist), Jennifer de Guzman (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.56 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haunted Mansion, No. 2 by Jennifer de Guzman (Goodreads Author), Jon Morris (Goodreads Author), Roman Dirge 4.16 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haunted Mansion #4 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haunted Mansion #5 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Half a Person 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slave Labor Stories: Too Stupid to Quit, Too Mean to Die 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Mozart: The Reign of Love

by Jan Swafford

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The Brightness Between Us (The Darkness Outside Us, #2)

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Three Against the Witch World (Witch World Series 1: Estcarp Cycle, #3)

by Andre Norton

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“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

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“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain,
a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

(Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, NIV)”
― Anonymous, Study Bible: NIV

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“I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.”
― Maurice Sendak

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“He was a physician, only an amateur naturalist, but the sort of man who never considered himself an amateur at anything. They all were.”
― Clare Beams, The Illness Lesson

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