I'm Barbara Sanchez. The only piece of writing I've ever had published is in the New Mexico Law Reports, a case I lost, and therefore made bad law, damn it. I am presently working on a joint autobiography with my twin sister. That is going very slowly. I am an avid reader, and travel by book. I don't have any particular expertise to offer the co-op, but I'm always willing to work. --- On Wed, 1/14/09, Karina Melendez <simu...@gmail.com> wrote: |
I wanted to write *and* pay the rent, and had a major
bent toward hard science (encouraged by the SFF I read
from early childhood), and went into tech writing at
19. I was good at it, and by 22 was running a pubs
department at a major engineering company, Burns & Roe,
in New York (where I was born and grew up). Moved to
California in 1966, and while contracting at Bechtel
met Ralph Metzner, who needed a Managing Editor for
the Psychedelic Review. The office was in Tim Leary's
house in the Berkeley hills, on Queen's Road. That
led to further interesting experiences... ;-)
I'd gotten interested in publications production,
and ran a printing plant in SF for a while, then
got into typesetting, using software that ran on an
old mainframe. I did a lot of that pro bono for
people and orgs that were in some way improving the
ghastly society in which I'd realized I was living.
In 1971, when Ms. started, I read the first issue,
cried for days, and became a second-wave feminist
on the spot. The Women on Wheels concert at the
Oakland Auditorium (Cris, Meg, Holly,and Margie)
blew me away, and introduced me to the Women's
Music community, which I became real involved in.
(I was going to vote for that one in the project
list, but didn't get to it before the deadline).
June Millington is my sister (we adopted each
other); she and her dear partner Ann created the
Institute of the Musical Arts, IMA, which is now
in western MA and at <http://www.ima.org/>.
I got into programming full time in 1975, mainly
in text-editing, word-processing, and typesetting,
and since then have not written much that's not C++.
My primary product is a tool for tech writers who
use Framemaker, enabling them to produce on-line
Help of numerous varieties from their Frame docs.
(That's Mif2Go, at <http://www.omsys.com>.)
I've also worked closely with a very old friend
and former partner who has about 300K copies of her
three books in print, Ruth Gendler, best known for
"The Book of Qualities" <http://www.ruthgendler.com>.
I actually kept all the editing on her last one in
FrameMaker, passing copies in Word back and forth,
and finally going into InDesign for the typesetting.
So production skills are definitely something I
can bring to the collective.
I'm currently living with my partner Debra in
Hillsboro, near Portland, OR. We have a guest
room if anyone wants to visit; address and phone
are in sig, but email is best.
I'm really looking forward to seeing what we can
do together, and would be happy supporting whatever
plan the Creatives <g> come up with.
Love and Light,
--Jeremy
Jeremy H. Griffith * jer...@omsys.com * Voice: (503) 547-8909
http://www.omsys.com * 3152 SE Timberlake Dr, Hillsboro, OR 97123
I think Nicola either expanded or started or a mix of both on this concept in a comment on my site. It felt like the middle of thought she'd been having, and I've been following the thought since.
Coming up for air from screenplay to introduce myself. Apologies for
the delay, but I've been following the conversation and enjoying all the ideas.
I'm Kelley. I'm Nicola's partner of 20+ years, author of the novel
Solitaire and the collection Dangerous Space. Have been publishing
fiction and nonfiction for nearly 20 years, and currently have a
screenplay in development. I'm also the Managing Partner of the
business that Nicola and I own, Humans At Work, which trains managers
in essential people-management skills. I have an extensive corporate
and consulting background, and I designed the curriculum for HAW.
I'm definitely prepared to contribute fiction to Ozy, and of course I
have lots of conversations with Nicola about The Future of
Publishing, etc., although this is Nicola's baby and she makes the choices.
Back to my other world now...
Best to you all,
K