: About Me

I'm just a work in progress. I've always been interested in the big questions-who are we, why are we here, what's for lunch, that sort of thing. The nature of Chaos, folks. This is that obligatory part where I drone on about the human behind the web interface and try to convince you I am a living, breathing, carbon-based being. Well, I lead an insane life and I hope this recounting will amuse and entertain you. I'm working on getting a bit of my writing up onto the Web for your "enjoyment" or something.

Okay, okay, first things first I suppose (ugh, how terribly linear). My personal websites are not always up-to-date. Ha, I'm being kind to myself-I'm still keeping pages on here that I did in 1995 (right, but I still like them, so there). I *try* keeping things updated, but that pesky critter called life keeps getting in my way. And my return links here are atrocious-some I've never gotten around to changing from existances three incarnations ago. I tender my apologies and point to your back button-it will be most useful.

Well, so there's yet another disclaimer from me. "And when I am dead I hope it may be said that my sins were scarlet but my books were read." Now that I've covered my rear (or tried to anyway), onward and, uh, westward!

You know that old addage about watching what thought you might speak (or write I suppose) aloud, or about bitching being the major cause of Things Getting Worse? Things are in complete hyperoverdrive (and this is ME we're talking about here). If you're part of what's come into my life recently and yet you find any mention of your existence missing here, please just dismiss it as a je ne sais pas quoi and forgive this rude lapse. But I digress.

Let's talk abount identity.

You may know me better by one of the several screen names I use in my wanderings on the Internet. In this thing called real life, or "Meatspace", I have a legal name that I use professionally. Here I'm using my not-quite legal name of Sappho Wolf. There are a lot of people out there who can spot *me* through any goofy web alias...much like how they could not fail to recognize a tree split in twain by a lightningbolt.

Okay, so here's the scoop in as entertaining a fashion as I can dish it. If Marilyn Manson is the Third and Final Beast, I'm the Afterthought Fourth Beast. I live the dream of being self-employed, but it's just too bad my boss is such a whacked-out bitch. My run-in with a chronic illness which has demanded some life changes of me has gotten me to re-evaluating what all is important in my life. I'm not chasing the almighty dollar anymore. Instead, I'm going to follow my heart. Mostly I write. Sometimes I pretend to be a expansive writer (well, obviously...I mean, how else is all this getting put down?), and compose horror/vampire/erotic fiction. I am also a musician, a scientist (magnetic resonance imagery and biochemistry), and Pagan clergy.

Podunk. Don't know why I wrote that. Just overcame me.

So what else is there? Irish heritage, Irish clan, Irish coat of arms. Both hands in the cookie jar. Way too educated for my own good and I want to go back for more. DOGGIES RULE! Pets not pelts! Snakies, I love them snakies. I'm obsessed with the family Corvidae (ravens and crows). Did I mention I'm a Sith mistress? Sith happens, after all. There's other stuff I'm leaving out, like my performance art and my ping pong ball trick. So it goes. It's not much good without the visuals anyhow. By the way, I don't believe in chickens. Or god (definition, puppet master). It's all the same anyway. So that's the dull stuff. Whoopie.

What? Still here? What more do you want from me? Blood type? I don't know! Contributions to the human genome project? Slough from shaving my legs! When did I lose my virginity? I never lost it, it was under the sofa cushions! Approximate daily consumption of lovebugs? Depends on whether I leave the windows down while driving!

Always remember than in two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.

My passion is ...

Human potential

I know too much about ...

All things mortuary

My parents always told me ...

Compassion is all

My childhood ambition ...

To make a difference

My favorite memory ...

Being stranded with my father and a busted car radiator

Why I write ...

I can't not write

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Book Thief...I recommend it

My first job ...

Customer relations in a cinnamon bun bakery

My best moment ...

The moment I completed the final draft of my first book

My inspiration ...

My parents

Arts & Humanities > Historical Literature Commentary: The historian writes historical romance

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My academic area of expertise within the greater division of Medieval history is linguistics. The comparative mechanics of high Roman Latin as compared to the vernacular of the sixth century C.E., however, is not the stuff of romantic fiction. While I personally might find such studies fascinating, I need to know when to leave behind my own pursuits in the field and tap into the body of cultural and historical knowledge I've acquired. For me, the beginning of writing historical fiction came at a very early age. I have always been a big history buff, and it struck me to write stories and pa...

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