About Em: The GIF edition

You know, I hate writing about myself. So I made this as an antidote to my very serious Author Bio page. This is everything you need to know about me. In GIFs.

I write books. A few have been published. People have asked me to sign them and everything!

GIF from Black Books — I still can’t quite believe it.

I make my own outfits and wear them to conventions to help deal with social anxiety.

I do actually do that with my tongue when I concentrate.

I drink a lot of tea. I am in good company.

I have a level 20 epic crush on this man.

I have a hierarchy of favourite tea cups. This is important.

Only those closest to me know what this hierarchy is.

This is what it feels like when you finally land a book deal.

I tried for a very long time. Seriously.

This is what I actually looked like:

My hair probably didn't look that good though.

The thing that surprised me most about becoming a professional author (apart from people actually, you know, paying me for what I write) is just how much waiting there is in this job. I'm not very good at it.

I co-wrote, hosted and produced the Hugo nominated Tea and Jeopardy podcast. It's silly and contains mild peril.

There was a butler in it called Latimer. That's how silly it was.

I'm also an audio book narrator.

I hate talking on the telephone unless I know someone very well, even then I prefer email. Telephone conversations that I'm not expecting from people I don't know well are all kinds of agony.