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    Creative writer and recovering academic. I design creative sabbaticals for women in midlife. I also teach creative writing for historical fiction and romance writers without the university price tag.

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    Bi/Ace/She/Her. Writer, filmmaker, romance author, human bulldozer. By day I help filmmakers crowdfund their passion projects, by night and on the weekends I write and direct short films and web series, and I write and read romance novels.

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