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Annina Lorna Anton, pub. as Annina L. Anton:

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URL to WWW Home page: Expected to be back online: summer of 2004

SF/F/H preferences:

I read, write, and like to review all genres. My work is generally fantasy or soft SF, with a little horror on the side. I write novels, novellas, short stories, flash, and poetry. Though I have five completed novels and over two hundred short stories, I have yet to submit much of it for publication, probably because I was waiting for a "voice" and style to emerge. However, as a former editor, my philosophy is that if I can dish out the criticism (and I can), I should be able to take it (and I do).

Publications, if any:

Special fantasy issue of Dark Regions & Horror Magazine (, Connect Magazine, Western regional SCA magazine, The Page (editor), editorials in The Ridge Gazette of Paradise, California.

Anything else you think would interest other members:

I'm a disabled (degenerative arthritis) writer and editor in middle years with the bifocals to prove it. I've been a published non-fiction writer for several decades, and have worked in publishing since college, where I edited the literary journal, then worked at a small publisher in South Jersey in the early seventies as a proofreader, typographer, copy editor, and acquisitions editor. I then worked as production manager at a small Northern California daily newspaper. When I married a sailor in 1976, I did editing, graphic illustration, pasteup, and freelancing as we moved around the globe, including a stint with Navy Recreation Department in Spain. My last freelance job was on the staff of Connect Magazine (Pegasus Press), as a bimonthly columnist. I have written on medical topics for a variety of websites, and ran World Community Forum on CompuServe, where I wrote notices, press releases, and announcements (in four languages) in addition to my regular management duties. I was a CompuServe Sysop (SystemOperator) for eleven years, where I wrote some of the original articles and FAQs on online safety and child safety issues. I am an avowed journal-keeper, both online and off. I was a winner in the National Novel Writing Month in November of 2003 and in the National Novel Editing Month in March of 2004. My blog at LiveJournal.com is under the name annina_writes. I design jewelry, make high-fired ceramics and pottery, and do a variety of needlework. I am cursed with verbosity!