My normal handle is Katz, but that was taken, so I'm using my oldschool handle, Jewelled Dragon (yes, I'm aware of the aberrant spelling). Please call me Katz. I'm 25 years old, female, and married. I live in Pasadena, CA. In case you were wondering, my avatar is the Etruscan sculpture Chimera of Arezzo.
I can often be found hanging about Writer's Block. The
TV Tropes Writing Contests are a particular favorite; I've judged 2, 3, and 5 and participated in 4. I am currently participating in 6.
Some tropes I've launched:
My current projects include:
- War Hamsters
— My webcomic, updated off and on as I feel like it.
- Aurora — An interactive fiction set on a spacecraft that unexpectedly failed to reach its destination.
Some completed works:
- The House Of Fear — An interactive fiction hermetic journey.
- A Bolt From The Blue — NaNoWriMo 2010. What will the next supernatural teen romance craze be? Time-traveling cyborgs, of course! Read on my blog starting here.
- Familiar (working title) — A cat is transformed into a human girl by a witch. But does her new body really make her human? Read it on Deviantart starting here.
- Crystallis — A deep space adaptation of the book of Ruth in mixed verse and prose. Quickly joining Kalandaz in the hall of shame.
- The Kalandaz Chronicles — NaNoWriMo 2004. Princes disguised as unicorns, marauding dragons, etc. Technically a trilogy, though only about 300 pages total. My first completed work, and the first to enter my personal hall of shame.
Some works in progress:
- Atlantia (working title, my magnum opus) — NaNoWriMo 2005. In a future ravaged by war and environmental damage, a new empire is spreading across Europe to restore peace and order. When the dictator chooses to marry a young American deportee, she must decide: Where do her alliances lie?
- (as yet untitled) — A parasite-like disorder capable of jumping from one person to another causes them to become werewolves in this metaphysical story about what makes us who we are.
- The Amulet — A fantasy parody with all the prophecies, evil chancellors, beautiful elf warriors, and ridiculous names you'd expect.
