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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

Actually, it's my nome de plume. I write erotica and about human sexuality, with bylines in several print anthologies and at online sites like Clean Sheets and Good Vibrations magazine.

I started with Compuserve around 1994 or 1995 and started using the web when it became affordable (that is, when flat rate fees came into existence).

I'm a freak so I'm not sure I can objectively answer the part of these blurb prompts. Oh wait -- yes I can! The day I discovered the web wasn't just for freaks was the day my mother phoned with her email address. Urgh.