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Today is a cooking day. I decided to use everything in the fridge that was about to go off, which included a cantaloupe, a summer squash, a cucumber, two zucchini, a bag of spinach, and some phyllo. So now I have a melon/squash/cucumber salad (pretty boring, but the yogurt dressing is great) chilling, and zucchini bread in the oven. When the bread comes out, spanakopita goes in. (There was also a grilled cheese sandwich interlude for the step-spawn.)

To ensure energy levels stay optimal for this endeavor, I put on my very worst 80s playlist. It's my 80s vamp/VD list, and I need a couple more songs to round it out. In case you don't believe me when I say worst, I share it for posterity:

Gino Vanelli - "Black Cars"
Hall & Oates - "Maneater"
Eddie Money - "Take Me Home Tonight"
Cutting Crew - "(I Just) Died In Your Arms"
Corey Hart - "Sunglasses At Night"
Def Leppard - "Love Bites"
Naked Eyes - "Always Something There To Remind Me"
Whitesnake - "Still of the Night"
Lou Gramm - "Lost in the Shadows"
Glenn Frey - "You Belong To The City"

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8. What's your favorite genre to write? To read?

Fantasy. I prefer creepy, weird, dark, urban, etc. to heroic and epic, but fantasy is always what I go back to. I like SF--especially when it's creepy, weird, etc.--but read less of it. To date I have two SFnal stories started, and ideas for one (1) novel. I also love horror, when it's smart and supernatural*, and hope to write something creepy one day. I enjoy reading mysteries and spy thrillers, too, but at this point can't imagine writing one that wasn't also fantastic or SFnal.

*I intensely dislike torture-porn and slasher horror. I don't mind serial killers--I love Criminal Minds and Silence of the Lambs--but I want intelligent plotting and even smarter psychology, not just Ooh, he's crazy and has a knife! Monsters, like everything else, must be complex and smart, or they're boring.