Danielle L. Parker
Bewildering Stories biography
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Ms. Parker has been a fan of the speculative fiction and mystery genres since she was a teenager reading illicit Andre Norton, A. E. van Vogt, and C. L. Moore paperbacks by flashlight on do-your-homework school nights. College, with a dual major in computer science and accounting and a so-far-inexplicable minor in German followed. A subsequent career in information technology and telecommunications, where she worked on everything from submarines to police systems to giant call center implementations, didn't stop her enjoyment of the worlds of sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, and classic horror.
So, after a viscious kick in the teeth and penniless kiss-off by a certain imploding telecommunications giant once proudly known as Lucent Technologies, she decided she ought to have more fun than carrying a company laptop and wearing a stodgy suit and pinching shoes had provided so far.
Besides writing reviews, stories, and articles for Bewildering Stories and various other publications, she has completed and is now trying to market a young-adult fantasy novel Jirel set in a sort of Scarlet Pimpernel cloak-and-dagger era of incognito Princes and sexy noblemen. She is also marketing her just-completed second novel, featuring Ms. Minuet James, entitled The Infinite Instant.
As for the day job, she’s working as the town librarian, while also trying to colonize twenty pioneer-style acres in the coldest and most uncivilized corner of Washington State; peeling and oiling an endless number of fence poles; and listening to the generator roar like Niagara while she composes at the keyboard. Laissez le bon temps rouler !
Copyright © 2005-2006 by Danielle L. Parker
