Apocalypse - Etymology: Middle English, revelation, Revelation, from Anglo-French apocalipse, from Late Latin apocalypsis, from Greek apokalypsis, from apokalyptein to uncover, from apo- + kalyptein to cover.
"She was a machine. I tell you a machine. Smoke rose from her keyboard, the scent was a mixture of blood and sweat. She frightened me."
"You're about as mundane as a fever dream." - vmurther
"I am a definite danger to myself. Though, rarely to others." - Me
"Eyes sparkling with mischief, hair flipping and curling around jawline or cheekbone, soft fabrics in lush blues, blacks, and purples, anticipating smile. Ready laugh in alto bells. Purr in voice. Unexpected steel. This is my mental snapshot of you." - deirdremoon
Ben: Ever see that bumper sticker, "Well-behaved women rarely make history"? Me: Yep. Ben: You, my friend, are not a well-behaved woman. Me: That is one of the nicest things you've ever said to me.
Member of Ordo Coclearum Runcibilis, the Order of the Runcible Spoon as declared by Grandmaster stonemirror
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======================== Current Author Bio: Jennifer Brozek is a Hugo Award-nominated editor and an award-winning author. Winner of the Australian Shadows Award for best edited publication, Jennifer has edited fourteen anthologies with more on the way, including Chicks Dig Gaming and Shattered Shields. Author of Apocalypse Girl Dreaming, Industry Talk, the Karen Wilson Chronicles, and the Melissa Allen series, she has more than sixty published short stories, and is the Creative Director of Apocalypse Ink Productions.
Jennifer is a freelance author for numerous RPG companies. Winner of the Scribe, Origins, and the ENnie awards, her contributions to RPG sourcebooks include Dragonlance, Colonial Gothic, Shadowrun, Serenity, Savage Worlds, and White Wolf SAS. Jennifer is the author of the YA Battletech novel, The Nellus Academy Incident, and the Shadowrun novella, Doc Wagon 19. She has also written for the AAA MMO Aion and the award winning videogame, Shadowrun Returns.
When she is not writing her heart out, she is gallivanting around the Pacific Northwest in its wonderfully mercurial weather. Jennifer is an active member of SFWA, HWA, and IAMTW. Read more about her at www.jenniferbrozek.com or follow her on Twitter at @JenniferBrozek.
My professional journal is at jennifer_brozek. ========================
About Me
Jennifer may be classified as a member of homo geekus and a member of homo gothus. Her attributes include extreme curiosity, a love of reading, favoring dark colors in soft fabrics and a fascination with anime. Her skills include writing, breaking software and gaming. As with many of her species, Jennifer is shy but may be approached with caution and responds favorably to chocolate.
I'm in love with my life. I talk about my cats, my husband, my house, even my car.
I also happen to be a sidekick character, Jenn, in the webcomic Casey & Andy who have their own LiveJournal: c_and_a. Also, there is now a Casey & AndyGURPS supplement!
"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement." ~Patricia in "Joe Versus the Volcano"