About the Author

Hi, my name's Anne Lyle, owner and creator of this site.

I set up this website mainly as a source of information on my writing, but it's also a convenient repository for stuff related to my other hobbies, as you'll see if you browse around.

Like most British SF&F writers of my generation, I grew up on "Doctor Who", "Star Trek" and "Star Wars", so the computer revolution of the 70s and 80s was a dream come true. For me it came a bit too late to influence my choice of degree, but the machines eventually invaded even the dusty world of academic publishing, and so my fate was sealed. Now I spend my days glued to a computer screen, peering with failing eyes at reams of incomprehensible, apparently random characters - or Perl, as we hard-core web programmers call it :)

When not writing fiction or maintaining this site, I can usually be found cooking, gardening, or just hanging out with family and friends. Even geek girls like a break from their technology sometimes...