About the author

"Even at eleven he had observed
that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time."
(William Denbrough in IT by Stephen King)

Read my LiveJournal here.

Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1970, I started writing as soon as I learned how to build sentences, first in longhand in ever-growing stacks of notebooks, then on the ancient IBM typewriter a friend of my mother gave me.

In 1986, my first science fiction story, Illusie (Illusion) was accepted for the Dutch anthology Ganymedes, which promptly folded. Discouraged by this setback, I kept writing, but didn't submit anything for years, instead focusing on a university degree in biology and a patchwork career of university and marketing research, croissant baking, teaching programming, and project management.

Then, in 2001, an American friend suggested I try my luck in the States. I wrote the short suspense story Deep Red, and sold it to the first market I submitted it to. The same friend pointed out the Writers of the Future contest in 2003, and after becoming published finalist with Conversation with a Mechanical Horse in 2003, the time travel tale Meeting the Sculptor reached first place in 2004. Since then, I have sold 7 more stories to various markets.

I still live in Amsterdam, the patchwork career continues, but these days I have Thursdays off for writing.