Valerie is a tax, business, and estate planning attorney in Portland, Oregon. Her favorite thing to do is to detangle complex language and solve problems. She has various degrees and accolades, none of which have to do with writing fiction. And yet we march on! It took her 20 years to feel competent at her day job, so she’s expecting a similar runway for her fantasy novel writing. Why novels? She admits that she doesn’t have the discipline or attention span for short stories. Valerie recently acquired a mini-velociraptor who is coming to believe that his name is “why are you chewing that?”
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