1. Name: Moondancer Drake
2. Location: Milwaukee, WI
3. Nickname/ Alias: Moon
4. Favorite Speculative Fiction Genres: I like cyberpunk, mystically
heavy modern fantasy
5. Favorite Speculative Fiction Books: I have to admit the love for
cyberpunk is recent, and I was gotten into it through the writing of
my husband Adrian. As far as fantasy I love Dragonlance, and the HP
and Charlie Bone books. I know there is more I could mention if I
didn't have two kids getting crazy in the background
6. Favorite Speculative Fiction Authors: Ursula Gunn, JK Rowling,
Adrian Drake, Octavia Butler, Margaret Weiss
7. Favorite Speculative Fiction Characters: Hmmm this was hard,
wherein I like the stories its hard to find charters I could really
relate to. I guess the closest is Tasslehoft, who is akin to my inner
child
8. Favorite Speculative Fiction Film or TV Adaptation of a Book:
9. Topics of importance to you:
10. Your views on how people of color are depicted in Speculative
Fiction: I am frustrated to often see men and women of color as
sidekick characters or done with non scene of cultural identity. There
is a slow improvement to this over the years, but I long to see more.
11. Your own published works, if any: Many written none in print…yet
12. Your web site: www.moondancerdrake.com
13. Your Speculative Fiction Pet Peeves: too much technobabble.
14. Memberships in science fiction clubs: Broaduniverse and Carl
Brandon Society
15. Anything else you think is important: I am a writer of LGBT
paranormal fiction. My novels are all multicultural, spiritual based
in my Native American/Dianic beliefs, and are ecoconscious