About Carol R. Jaye

Location: Still (again?) on hurdies, in chair...or perhaps not, as I firmly believe that any discerning Scot would tell me, my hurdies this year are decidedly "out the window."

Favorite novels: Bleak House; Catriona; Damiano; Eight Cousins; Kidnapped; Our Mutual Friend; Outlander; Rose in Bloom; Tuck Everlasting; Watch by Moonlight; Westmark series; the Wolves (of Willoughby Chase) Chronicles.

Favorite writers: Ms. Joan Aiken, Miss Louisa Alcott, Mr. Lloyd Alexander, Mr. Charles Dickens, Ms. Diana Gabaldon, Ms. Kate Hawks, Ms. R.A. "Bertie" MacAvoy, Mr. R.L. Stevenson. Non-novelists: Mr. Henry Mayhew, Mr. Sidney Lanier, Mr. E. A. Poe, and most English, Irish, or Scottish (Romantic & Victorian) poets.

Favorite music: (for novelling)--movie soundtracks; Celtic/Gaelic; some New Age & classical. For this novel I, as always, am making my own "soundtrack" disc (partly Celtic).

Non-noveling interests: Drama & film; roleplaying gaming; research; linguistics (esp. Gaelic & the many dialects of the English-speaking peoples); genealogy; the British Isles; the Old American West; "things that go bump in the night"; horses; angels; medicine (both modern and historical); many arts; and my "writerly nieces" (ye ken who y' are, lasses).