You people talk about the living and the dead as if they were two mutually exclusive categories. As if you cannot have a river that is also a road, or a song that is also a color.~ Neil Gaiman

I'm an avid reader, mainly of fantasy novels/short stories, but pretty much any fiction will do. Here are some of my favorite books:

Lord of the Rings; Harry Potter; His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman); Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, and Anansi Boys (Neil Gaiman); Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson); The Giver and Messenger (Lois Lowry); Artemis Fowl (Eoin Colfer); Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (Susanna Clarke); The Naming, The Riddle, and The Crow (Alison Croggon); the Wheel of Time series (Robert Jordan); Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card); Kingkiller Chronicle (Patrick Rothfuss); Havemercy (Danielle Bennett and Jaida Jones); and Tithe, Valiant, and Ironside (Holly Black)

I also have a profile on fictionpress.com, under the same name, so if you want to check that out it would be appreciated.

A little about my work:

"Dawn of Evening": My first attempt at a one-shot. I'll be the first to admit that it's not my best work, and though I'm usually pretty good about removing my stories as soon as I realize how bad they are, I'm somewhat attached to this one. So it stays. It's basically a little ficlet about the day Harry was born.

"Reflection": A one-shot about how I imagined Bella's change would be. In an ideal world, of course, nothing gruesome. Obviously this was written before Breaking Dawn.

"First Christmas": The most fun to write, hands down. I'd been dying to try my hand at a Marauder-age ficlet, and this is what came of it. Of course, it's set in first year, so they weren't really Marauders yet... whatever. Read for some Remus goodness (with a side of Sirius, as always).

The Prisoner and the Professor: My first full-length fic in a very long time. The Prisoner of Azkaban from the points of view of Sirius and Remus.