Researcher and writer for Morning Spoliers at Io9.com from 2/13-9/13
Contributor and Researcher for IO9.com from 6/12-9/13. Examples:
http://io9.com/5988907/the-10-greatest-fictional-female-scientists-we-want-to-be-when-we-grow-up
http://io9.com/the-biggest-reasons-why-fairies-are-evil-510180209
http://io9.com/spirit-foxes-and-raunchy-demons-in-japanese-netsuke-art-505023670
“Words of Prey” The Prose-Poem Project. Vol.2 Issue 4: Spring 2012 http://prose-poems.com/raw_poems.8.5.html#yesilbas
“Geeks in the Mist” The Escapist Magazine. 5 Oct 2010. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_274/8175-Geeks-in-the-Mist
“The Games That Bind” The Escapist Magazine. 18 May 2010 http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_254/7562-The-Games-That-Bind
“When I was a Sex Goddess” The Escapist Magazine. 16 Oct 2008
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_180/5572-When-I-was-a-Sex-Goddess
Reviewer for Historical Novel Review Online Annex – two reviews Quarterly- 2004-to present. Example can be seen at http://www.historicalnovelsociety.org/hnr-online-nov-2005.htm . Earlier reviews under maiden name Speight.
“Old Is New Again: Using Established Workflows to Handle Electronic Resources “ Serials Librarian,v52 issue 3/4(2007), 277-280
“The Unlikely Attendee of the Caldecott/Newberry/Wilder Banquet” Footnotes v.35 No.1 Aug. 2005 . http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/nmrt/news/footnotes/august2005a/unlikelyattendee.cfm
Footnotes May 2005- “The Roughneck Librarian’s guide to the Stacks” (cover of ALA print edition)
Footnotes Aug. 2004 – Event summary and photos of NMRT Student Reception.
Letter to editor 7/23/04 Salon.com
Written acknowledgment and thanks in forward for work as a research assistant for the Ringling museum’s publication Ringling: The Museum
Short humorous blurb Reader's Digest, Jan 2006, 71.
Awards:
Marshall Cavendish Newbery/Caldecott/Wilder essay contest 2005