Diana L. Heald

I live on the outskirts of Syracuse, NY. I will be 52 the end of August. I live with my two sons (14 and 13), a dog (Great Pyrenees), two cats (calico and all black), and assorted fish and turtle. I enjoy living in Syracuse, but hate snow. I grew up in southern California. Snow is what you go and play in after all the roads are plowed and then go home.
My oldest son is into reading and the younger is into sports.
I have been reading science fiction since before I was ten. My favorite authors are Andre Norton (I've been reading her as long as I can remember), Anne McCaffrey (I love dragons - I want to ride one even though I'm deathly afraid of heights - I also loved Pegasus before I knew about dragons), Ursula LeGuin (Left Hand of Darkness got me hooked on her), Robert Aspirin (love his M.Y.T.H. books), Isaac Asimov (I can't imagine reading all of his books), Robert Heinlein (I like his action books rather than the philosophical ones). Well the list can go on and on.
When I was ten, I beat up a boy when he said there were no such things as spacemen. I made him take it back. I then had to apologize when Mom told me he was right. That was worse than Santa Claus, the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny all rolled up into one.
I work as an independent consultant in data processing. I'm currently working at Syracuse University converting one of their systems from mainframe to the infamous client/server. My e-mail address is dlheald@ais.syr.edu. I have others at home, but I don't check them very often.