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Welcome to my world.
I never have enjoyed talking about myself.  I can never find anything to say, and quite frankly, I find  myself the least
interesting of people.  Others, with their infinite diversity, are much more intriguing!  As far as the basics go, I was born
and raised in Los Angeles and developed a taste  for mystery, science fiction, and suspense from a very early age, reading
my father's collection  of old Amazing, Astounding, and Black Mask.  Our home library was an eclectic one, with books  by
Ngaio Marsh, Agatha Christie,  E. Phillips Oppenheim, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.  We made weekly excursions to the local library and came home with as many books as the library allowed.

I graduated from high school, went to a communty college to study stage craft, and then transferred to UCLA as an art major.  When I went to work, it was first as a technical artist, then a technical writer, and finally as manager of a technical writing
group for a major corporation.   I sold my first story, "Eat, Drink, and Be Merry" to near-legendary editor John Campbell,
and followed that with other short story sales  to magazines and anthologies.  In the years since then I have written novels as
well as short stories, and occasional non-fiction.

In 1994 my husband, two cats, and I moved to a rural area of Northern California where I began writing the Mark Stoddard mysteries and planning the Captain Spycer novels; rolicking SF comedies modeled on the wonderful old Captain Future series by SF great Edmond Hamilton. Around this time, I realized that eBooks are not only the modern version of the old well-loved pulps, but that they provide modern readers with a perfect opportunity to build personal electronic libraries; libraries that hold the text of hundreds of books and still fit in a jacket pocket.  This may be the best advance in the written word since Gutenburg came along!  I am delighted to be part  of this innovation in writing, and I hope you enjoy my contributions to the world of electronic books.

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That Feline Genius -- LUCKY PIERRE!!
Cosy mysteries about a young couple,
a bed and breakfast, and a cat!

Lucky Pierre solves a bludgeon murder in the Honeysuckle Bed and Breakfast.	Lucky Pierre is on the job when a ghost hunter gets killed in the bed and breakfast.

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IRDA'S CHILDREN - Books 1 and 2

Young Geir and his sister, Jory, fight to win the kingdom of the Jurnburg, and find that it is a fight for their lives in this fast-paced fantasy adventure.	Geir won a kingdom, only to lose it again.  His sister, Jory, travels into the past in search of a secret which will help him regain it.

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SPYCER IN SPACE!
Join Captain Sherilyn Spycer and her rolicking RayRunner crew-- scaly red Col. Krabchake,
the head of Prof. Groppe,  robot Peter Decade, and one innocent anthropologist -- as they set
out to save the universe in these hilarious excursions into outer space!

                                                                                          

MURDER ON THE LIGHT SIDE!
Follow the adventures of Detective Mark Stoddard as he wends his sometimes bemused way
through these whimiscal tales of crime in the Northern California town of Pomo.

The Corpse in Color was found covered with smears of lovely acrylic paint.	The Corpse in the Abstract turns up in an outhouse, of all places!	The Corpse in the Camera is long dead, but who killed him and why?	The Corpse in the Concrete was put there by someone who hated the contractor.	The Corpse With the Key holds the answer to a decades-old disappearance.

ALSO AVAILABLE:  A miscellany to lift you out of the doldrums!

Monster Lake shelters a myth and a legend. A novel of comic terror set in Northern California.	Sex and science fiction DO mix in The Cosmic Wheel -- a novel of the near future.	All of the Cheryl Harbottle stories in one volume! Plus, the famous Talisman, written with Larry Niven.	It's the Sixties again, and it's Worldcon time! Too bad one of the  speakers has gotten himself murdered...