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Main is "Epsilon Project", a serial with new parts every few weeks, voted on by you readers. (If you join, good chance of influencing the plot, rarely get over 5 votes.) Thirty-something Angel Rusee is dealing with an artifact in 1960s France.

Ongoing WIP is "Time Untied", the time travel sequel to the other serial on my site. (All pinned to my profile.) Carrie is at University with time powers, relationship issues... and a killer.

2: Write in a typical week?

A *typical* week? I don't write at all. I'm a parent first, a teacher second, then there's the whole clean/shop/sleep nonsense. Plus publicity. Not much can be done about it.

"Epsilon" forces 2000 words out of me biweekly, tends to be 4-5 hours Fri/Sat night. NaNo forces me to make time for "Time Untied" in Nov and July. End of those months, the kitchen's a horror show, laundry's backed up, I'm sleep deprived, pantry's empty, but words exist.

3: Face shot?

Meh. If it's there I take note, but I never go searching. It's also a snapshot in time, given how we age, which in a way makes a book less timeless.

Plus, as others have pointed out, it can be a way to deliberately overlook women or minorities, so the drawbacks may outweigh the benefits.

Though, as you can tell by my icon, I prefer to be more anonymous anyway. So, here's an experiment... is this indeed how you pictured me? Has your opinion of me changed?

Alex Pengaled

@mathtans I refuse to believe you are not, in fact, a very gorgeous watch!

@pengaled As long as I'm gorgeous, that's what counts. Thank you for the response.