About dancingcrane

Location: San Diego (El Cajon), CA

Home Region:
United States :: California :: San Diego

Age:52

Favorite novels: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Pilgrimage, The People, The Anything Box, Holding Wonder (Henderson); The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger (Lowry); LOTR (Tolkien); Narnia series, Space Trilogy, Til We Have Faces (Lewis;) All Hallows Eve (Williams); The Man Who Was Thursday (Chesterton); the Miles Vorkosigan series (Bujold); The Deed of Paksenarrion (Moon)The Tales of Alvin Maker (Card); the Harry Potter series (Rowling); The Tin Box (Kennedy)

Favorite writers: Dean Koontz (new discovery!),Zenna Henderson, Lois Lowry, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Charles Williams, George MacDonald, GK Chesterton, Lois McMaster Bujold, Elizabeth Moon, Orson Scott Card, JK Rowling, Holly Kennedy, Bruce Coville, Ursula Le Guin

Favorite music: Ukrainian liturgical (church) music, Yasunori Mitsuda, Yuki Kajiura, Yoko Shimomura, Sato Toshihiko, Kumi Tanioka (videogame music composers, very classical/new age in style), Nightwish, Cruxshadows, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Masterplan, Evanescence (metal), Skelpin (irish-world fusion), Rondo Veneziano (modern italian baroque), Nik Kershaw (?lol), Josh Groban, and techno almost anything - though my characters tend to pick their own themes from anywhere...

Non-noveling interests: God, my family, online text-based roleplaying, theatre, religion/philosophy, music, amateur radio, science and science fiction/fastasy in any form; aim SN dancingcrane7