{"id":268,"date":"2013-02-24T19:10:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T00:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/journal\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2023-06-10T20:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T00:24:23","slug":"contact","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/?page_id=268","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-285 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/biocollage-208x300.png\" alt=\"biocollage.png\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/biocollage-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/andinewton.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/biocollage.png 487w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/>I write stories. It&#8217;s what I do. I make up worlds where most of us wouldn&#8217;t want to go, then force characters who&#8217;ve rarely done anything wrong to suffer in them. Sometimes the characters survive; sometimes they don&#8217;t. I feel very bad about it when they don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>I co-wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.chaosium.com\/product_info.php?products_id=3746&amp;osCsid=5cd6d6373f9efbd5a20b47127311f824\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Cthulhu Invictus<\/i><\/a> and the Cthulhu Invictus Companion, sourcebooks for the Call of Cthulhu roleplaying game, and have had short stories published in magazines such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyteller1.upcsites.org\/page\/page\/3761885.htm\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>The Storyteller<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talesofthetalisman.com\/news.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Tales of the Talisman<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Although I was barely in my teens when I got my first computer (a Commodore 64 with Datasette drive) and have no fewer than four working computers in my home, I write my first drafts longhand with a fountain pen. I&#8217;ve also learned to restore fountain pens, and might someday try selling them instead of simply giving them away.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently become addicted to knitting and science, particularly astrophysics. When the weather&#8217;s nice &#8212; and even sometimes when it&#8217;s not &#8212; you can also find me using billion dollar satellites to find tupperware in the woods or tiny magnets on telephone poles. Better known as geocaching.<\/p>\n<p>I live in North Carolina with my husband and <i>Invictus<\/i> co-author, Chad Bowser and our four cats.<\/p>\n<h2>Contact Info<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m @andimn on Twitter. You&#8217;re more than welcome to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/AndiMN\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">follow me<\/a>. I tweet about things I&#8217;m researching for stories, like pocketwatches, spiders, trains, and fungi. Or about things that interest me, like fountain pens, cats, or art. I only occasionally tweet about food.<\/p>\n<p>You can also <a href=\"mailto:andi@andinewton.com\" target=\"-new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">email me at andi@andinewton.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I write stories. It&#8217;s what I do. I make up worlds where most of us wouldn&#8217;t want to go, then force characters who&#8217;ve rarely done anything wrong to suffer in them. Sometimes the characters survive; sometimes they don&#8217;t. I feel very bad about it when they don&#8217;t. I co-wrote Cthulhu&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/?page_id=268\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[]},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4udeu-4k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}