I'm here because Narrative rode into the sunset.  And many of the people I grew to know and call friends, have been on Steem for awhile, and some of them are joining because Narrative is gone.  It was a great concept, but sometimes that is not enough.

I like to write, I often write both fiction and non-fiction.  When I write fiction, it usually falls into the Speculative, Weird, or Horror genres, I enjoy SciFi and Fantasy writing, too. When I write non-fiction, I enjoy doing pieces on practical sustainability and eco-awareness - basically living smaller and enjoying more. And I like to do interview pieces, because people are fascinating (especially if they, themselves, do not believe they are). I am working on lots of different writing projects, and hope to sell a few more books this coming year than I did in 2019.

I don't know what I don't know about Steem...so there will be a learning curve, and I may not be as active here as I was on Narrative because this interface is somewhat daunting, as is the variety of keys I must maintain (and not lose or I lose everything). Not that I have anything yet to lose...but in case I do well here, I guess I need to be very careful. I tried to open an account here ages ago, and my laptop died and I lost the keys.  

Hopefully this time I will be okay, since I have saved them in a zillion safe spots and on jump drives etc etc. But as Gandalf once said "Even the wisest cannot see all ends" or some such (I was paraphrasing, so if you are a Tolkien scholar, please don't hate me). On the plus side, I love to explore so I think this will be a fun experiment.

If you need my bio - I'm an amerasian woman, in my 60's, and worked in Tech for nearly 40 years in all aspects. Then I burned out and built a pet services business and a non-profit.  I retired those when my husband's job required us to move.  And now I write. And I've always been an artist on the side, so I often experiment with mixed media.   I have a huge black german shepherd named Logan and two cats - Mister and Claudia.  But these things only tell you about me from the outside looking in, to know who I am, you have to read my fiction...then you will get into my head instead of the surface stuff that is usually in biographies. 

I hope to make new friends here, and to catch up with those I met elsewhere.