ANGEL: I want to help because I don’t think people should suffer as they do. Because, if there’s no bigger meaning, then the smallest act of kindness is the greatest thing in the world.”
– Angel, “Epiphany” (02.16)

SUMMARY

Geek Speak Status: Staff Writer
Nationality: USA
Preferred Nationality: I would keep it, as long as I could have been a foreign exchange student at Hogwarts.
Known Alias(es): Trying to maintain alias anonymity since 2004
Michael Bay is… a total sexist. Don’t you hate it when Megan Fox is right?

GENRE CREDENTIALS

Gateway Fandom: Sword and Sorceress anthologies.
Favorite Movie: Army of Darkness
Favorite TV Show(s): Buffy, Angel, True Blood, Firefly
Favorite Book: Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Favorite Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley.
Guilty Pleasure: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
Crush(es): Nathan Fillion.
Vendetta(s): None.
Fan-fiction: Pro or Con? Pro, but I do have my limits!

THE FINAL 5

Trek or Wars: I stay out of this one. As well as debates between Tiffany and Debbie Gibson.
DC or Marvel: Dark Horse.
Vampires or Werewolves: Vampires. I have no idea why I like the undead so much.
Dragons or Unicorns: Unicorns. Unless I could be a Dragonrider in Pern.
Time Travel: Pro or Con?: Pro. I would totally help my younger self win at kickball

FEATURES

• Blood, Death and Sex, a True Blood Episode Guide (with David Baldwin and Rachel Hyland), Issue 4, June
  2010
• Close Encounters (Contributor), meetings with our geek idols, Issue 5, July 2010
• Doing it Wrong, the Bechdel Test in genre, Issue 10, December 2010
• Geek Speak: Year One (Contributor), an anniversary issue retrospective, Issue 13, March 2011
• In Memoriam (Compiler), a tribute to those the geek world has lost this past year, Issue 13, March 2011
• Through the Pensieve (Contributor), reflections on Harry Potter, Issue 17, July 2011
• One for the Books (Contributor), a look at NPR’s Top SFF Novels 1 – 50, Issue 19, September 2011
• Two for the Books (Contributor), a look at NPR’s Top SFF Novels 51 – 100, Issue 20, October 2011
• Let it Snow, the many Snow White tales told onscreen, Vol. 2, Issue 1, April 2012
• Dark Shadows: The Other Cult Franchise, Vol 2, Issue 1, May 2012
• My First Crush (Contributor), Vol. 2, Issue 10, January 2013

AFTER THE FALL

• Charmed (with Rachel Hyland), Issue 5, July 2010

THE TOP 13

• Pop-Culture Witches, Issue 8, October 2010
• Paranormal Romance Clichés (Contributor), Issue 12, February 2011
• Geek Speak Recommendations (Contributor), Issue 13, March 2011

GEEK VS GEEK

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 6: A Compelling Metaphor, Issue 7, September 2010

REVIEWS

MOVIES

• Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter (2012)
• Argo (2012)
• Army of Darkness (1992)
• Attack the Block (2011)
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
• Cowboys and Aliens (2011)
• Enchanted (2007)
• Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
• I Am Legend (2007)
• Limitless (2011)
• Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
• Teeth (2007)
• The Evil Dead (1981)

BOOKS

• Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris
• Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris
• Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris
• Department 19 by Will Hill
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
• Fairest of All by Serena Valentino
• Mermaid by Carolyn Turgeon
• Metamorphoses by Ovid
• Must Love Hellhounds, edited by Charlaine Harris
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
• Provoked by Rebecca Zanetti
• Something Witchy This Way Comes by H. P. Mallory
• The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Sookie Stackhouse Series by Charlaine Harris
• Vampires: The Recent Undead, edited by Paula Guran
• Wicked Appetite by Janet Evanovich
• Wicked Business by Janet Evanovich
• Zombie Economics: Your Guide to Personal Finance by Lisa Desjardins and Rick Emerson