Oh, we are still around. Finding print publishers to print our stuff is a hard and rare thing to do. As a so far unpublished writer I have found this to my great frustrations simply because my writing is not a male dominated, weapon filled space opera. Ah but there is hope. Instead of staying with only the print publishers, many a forward looking writer has turned to e-publishing. I have to admit I was slow on the uptake. I still wanted to hold it in my hands and it just not the same holding it on my Treo. Still as I look for publishers for my stories, I find that there are many more publishers who specifically ask for Science Fiction and Fantasy not to be weapon driven or only male dominated story telling. I have long said along with many others that there are women who would love Science Fiction and that we are not a bunch of Geeky freaks. Nice to be proven right. In many ways, where else would we have gone? Being naturally forward thinking, new methods of communications would fit right in with our.. What If... style of looking at life.

I lift my cup of tea to the writers of today who are the tomorrow's engineers and scientist inspirations.

Nancy Louise