Tinnean- a pseudonym

I guess you could say I'm a Noo Yawk kinda gal, even though I've been living down here in Southwest Florida, or as we like to call it, Hurricane Central, for the past 6 years. I'm married, have kids and grandkids, and #1 son just got engaged.

I've been writing since 3nd grade (fortunately, none of that survived) and was on the staff of my high school magazine. In college, my English 101 professor would read my essays aloud, which tickled me no end.

Fast forward to 1997. With the advent of our second computer (the first was a total disaster and just sat -- everyone was too intimidated to use it), I got back to writing. Ah, copy and paste- truly a beautiful thing. In 1999 a friend, a rabid La Femme Nikita (the TV show, not the movie) fan, got me into fandom. The first time I wrote something, a poem riffing off The Night Before Christmas to celebrate the group's anniversary, and got feedback on it, I was stunned. I had no clue people would do that.

In the fall of '99, while I was happily writing Torture Twins het, my friend came across slash -- pretty boys doing hot things to each other! -- and shared her discovery with me. (I found Nifty all on my own.) From that point on, het was a thing primarily of the past.

And then came the Sunday when AMC aired Them! Of course, this was still when the 'Classics' in the title actually *meant* classics, and not dreck like Sheena. Sorry. /rant It became obvious to me that the director had it all wrong. Bob (the Jim Arness character) didn't fall for the heroine, he fell for Ben (the James Whitmore character). So I rewrote the story, keeping Ben alive. And from there I went on to Casablanca, The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen (why yes, I do like Humphrey Bogart, how did you guess? *g*), the Kongs -- King and Son of, and various creature features of the 30s, 40s, and 50s. I've also slashed TV shows such as Stargate Atlantis, CSI: Miami, Crossing Jordan, The Sentinel, and JAG.

In August 2000, I began corresponding with Gail Morse, who has become not only a dear friend but my beta as well, and who helped me wrangle commas into submission, hone my craft by asking why or telling me she couldn't see how I got to a particular point, and encouraged me when I felt a story was going nowhere. She also encouraged me to write JAG slash, not Harmon Rabb, but Palmer/Webb, (between the two of us, that pairing is no longer considered rare) and the universe I created for that developed into two series, Mind Fuck and Soundbytes. (there's even a story told from the POV of a pair of jeans.)

Friends and Lovers came about as a birthday gift for Tony, a friend who's my sweetie. It was originally just a snippet written to cheer him up when he had a cold, but I went back and fleshed it out, and A Perfect Blendship was born. Other stories followed, tracing the evolution of Tom and Jack from friends to lovers, and eventually I hope to write The Next Generation, about Jack's son Teddy and the young man with whom he finds happiness.

I'm what you might call a hopeful romantic, and if you see my name on a story, it will have a happy ending.