Welcome to our new site!
Kira Franz
Make a donation
Click the PayPal button to sponsor Kira Franz:
Excerpt
The atrium was warm, wet, and planted for the tropics. Mercy considered it a vast improvement on the old courtyard, which had been open to the frigid San Fran air.
One spinner had trained a homing pigeon to fly to the sound of a dog whistle. She took her break in the old courtyard, blew her whistle, attached a couple of critical chips to the bird's legs, and let it go again. She left the property early that night and never returned. She was probably either dead or living it up on her own island somewhere, Mercy figured. That little bit of industrial espionage had created their entire competition.
- from Dreamspinner
Bio
Kira always hates writing bio blurbs. As a former Write-a-thon administrator, she is very amused that virtually everyone writes them in third person and then answers all or most of the rest of the Write-a-thon questions in first person. She's working on a paper on the subject.
Otherwise, she's had a lot of different jobs: toilet cleaner, A/V goddess, radio talk show producer, lawyer, and ever-so-briefly, firefighter. She's now a mom of an amazing toddler. She assumes these experiences will inform her writing, which will therefore be insightful and brilliant. She attended Clarion West 2005.
Publications
"The Lion Waiting," a story in the anthology Glorifying Terrorism, edited by Farah Mendlesohn
Writing Description
Exploring the human condition through thinly disguised metaphor.
Goals
Write 500 words per day, every damn day. Make the time, make the space, don't try to make up the 3,500 words on the last day of the week. I have two projects that can easily absorb this, a novella called "Saving Miranda" and a novel called Dreamspinner.
I pestered so many people my first year of the WaT that I raised $500. I don't know if that can be reproduced, but I'll give it a shot. I'm also sponsoring a number of members of the Clarion West Class of 2005.
