The Sugar Quill Staff Room
The Sugar Quill can only function with the help of many, many
valuable volunteers. We have help and assistance from many members for different
projects.
In addition, the Sugar Quill forums would not run as smoothly
without the help of the Admins
and the Forum
Ghosts.
The people below are the official Sugar Quill beta-readers.
When you submit a story, you will be assigned one of these individuals to help
you.
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Name: Ada
Kensington
Age: 19
Favorite authors (besides JK Rowling): Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe,
J. R. R. Tolkien, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Angela Carter (don't read too
much into that), Jane Austen, Franz Kafka (again, don't read too much into that),
C. J. Sansom (a newer favourite) and Alexander McCall-Smith.
Education: M. A. in English Language.
In real life: University student with far too much time on her hands...
Zodiac: Libra
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Name: Arya
Age: 19
Favorite Authors (besides JK Rowling): John Steinbeck, Edward Albee
(and most other Absurdist playwrights), David Sedaris, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien,
Phillip Pullman, William Faulkner, Jane Austen, and whoever else sounds good
at the moment.
Education: Currently in college for a BFA in Creative Writing
In real life: A college student and bookstore employee dreaming of shelving
her own books someday.
Zodiac: Pisces
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Name: Beth Degner (Ivory)
Age: 23
Favorite authors (besides JK Rowling): Jane Austen, C.S. Lewis, Douglas
Adams, Terry Pratchett, Nick Hornby, Jeffery Archer, J.R.R. Tolkien, Madeline
L'Engle, Oscar Wilde (and any sort of Poli Sci book that I feel will fill some
of the gaps that college is creating
Education: International Politics and Aerospace Engineering currently
in progress
In real life: Third year college student who sometimes reads the wrong
thing during classes. (But Harry Potter in Spanish will keep one awake while
the rest of the Chem class is falling asleep!) Currently working on a pilot's
license and am a runner and spinner (of thread, not on a stationary bicycle)
Zodiac: Gemini
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Name: Birgit
Age: 22
Favourite authors (besides JK Rowling): Many Dutch authors
(Bernlef and Renate Dorrestein, for example) and aside from that Tolkien and
Agatha Christie.
Education: MSc in mathematics
In Real Life: PhD student, doing mathematics all day. :-)
Zodiac: Scorpio
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Name: Dogstar
Age: ism
Favourite authors (besides JK Rowling): Jane Austen, David
Lodge, E Nesbit, Julian Barnes, George Eliot, John Wyndham, Mary Wesley, Lucy
M Boston, E M Forster, Tove Jansson, Antonia Forest, Joan Aiken, Diana Wynne
Jones, Alice Thomas Ellis, Catherine Storr, Umberto Eco
Education: Just started a PhD in media, education, internet studies
sort of thing. And Harry Potter.
Real life: Paid student. Yay!
Zodiac: Libra
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Name: Elanor
Gamgee (also known as
Captain Kathy of the Good Ship R/H)
Age: 27
Favorite authors (besides JK Rowling): J.R.R. Tolkien, Richard Adams,
Margaret Peterson Haddix, James Joyce, Sharon Creech, Megan Whalen Turner, L.M.
Montgomery, E.L. Konigsburg, Jon Scziesca, Mark Twain
Education: B.A. in English, M.L.S. (another Masters of Library Science!)
In real life: Children's librarian, storyteller, and book reviewer
Zodiac: Aquarius
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Name: Emelye
Age: 24
Favourite authors (besides JKR): I'll restrain myself and just list
the top five. Jane Austen, Francis Hodgson Burnett, Robert Jordan, Douglas Adams,
C.S. Friedman
Education: Working on a JD (law)
Real life: When I'm not buried to the eyebrows in schoolwork, I really
enjoy the theater and seeing live performances - opera, ballet, musicals, plays,
orchestras, etc. I'm an unapologetic nerd. I will discuss law for fun, I like
taking long hours by myself in museums, and I've seen the original Star Wars
trilogy an obscene number of times.
Zodiac: Virgo, through and through.
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Name: Felina Black
Age: 27
Favorite Authors (besides J.K. Rowling): Oh, too many to name as I'm
always finding new treasures. But, here goes: Richard Adams, J.R.R. Tolkein,
Jane Austen, C.S. Lewis, Michael Shaara, Jeff Shaara, Charles Dickens, Eoin
Colfer, Shakespeare, Michael Crichton, and on and on
.
Education: B.A. in Political Science and Honors from Baldwin-Wallace
College (it's near Cleveland, OH) and J.D. from The Ohio State University (Go
Bucks!)
In real life: Attorney Editor for legal publishing company, where I
spend entirely too much time discussing politics, religion, evolution, etc.,
etc. with co-workers rather that doing actual work. Also enjoy scrapbooking,
reading, watching movies, and attempting to convince my poor, unenlightened
husband of the brilliance of all things Potter.
Zodiac: Virgo; Year of the Dragon
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Name: Genesse
Age: 29
Favorite authors (besides JK Rowling): Jane Austen, L. M. Montgomery,
Gail Carson Levine, Robin McKinley, Meg Cabot, Eoin Colfer, Avi, Larry McMurtrey,
Stephenie Meyer, Elizabeth Gaskell, Louise Rennison, Helen Fielding
Education: B.A. English
In real life: I don't use my degree.
Zodiac: I am definitely a Leo
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Name: girlyswot
Age: of Reason
Favorite authors (besides JK Rowling): Jasper Fforde, Dorothy L. Sayers,
Georgette Heyer, Jane Austen, Antonia Forest, P.G. Wodehouse. I like poetry
too, especially Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Donne and George Herbert.
Education: Way too much for my own good. Did you not see my username?
Real life: Yup, that would pretty much be what I do when I'm not online.
For more information, see under Education
Zodiac: Nope, not playing.
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Name: Gufa
Age: 20
Favorite Authors (besides J.K. Rowling): Madeleine L'Engle, Roald Dahl,
Mary Stewart, L.M. Montgomery, Agatha Christie, L. Frank Baum, C.S. Lewis, Primo
Levi, Louisa May Alcott, Luigi Pirandello, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen, Georgette
Heyer, Giuseppe Verga, Shakespeare, Plato, Euripides...many more, too...
Education: graduated from a Classical Studies High School and am studying
for a Degree in European Literatures for Cultural Productions (that's the literal
translation...basically, it means publishing, editing, journalism...)
In real life: Aside from studying (hard)...I read, write, take pictures,
go for long walks on my ocean boardwalk...Also I do translating work whenever
I can.
Zodiac: Do you guys believe in Astrology?? I'm an Aquarius.
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Name: Hazelle
Age: 19
Favorite Authors (besides J.K. Rowling): Orson Scott Card,
Garth Nix, Louise Rennison, Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles
Dickens, Liz Berry, Neil Gaiman, John Steinbeck, Ursula K. Le Guin
Education: B.A. in English literature in progress
In real life: I'm a college student in a hippie town. Real life probably
doesn't apply. That said, I spend most of my time reading, writing and editing
which is WAY more fun for the Quill than for one's English degree.
Zodiac: Capriciouscorn... I mean, Capricorn
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Name: HelenH
Age: 35
Favourite authors (besides JKR): Susanna Clarke, Ian McEwan, Agatha
Christie, Michael Morpurgo, Lewis Carroll, Kate Atkinson, Charles Dickens, Robert
Graves, Anne Fine
Education: BSc in Biology, PGCE (post graduate teaching qualification)
for primary and middle-years education, with specialisms in Literacy and Science
Real Life: Primary School Teacher
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Name:Igenlode Wordsmith
Favorite authors (besides JK Rowling): Diane Duane, Arthur Ransome,
Neville Shute, Georgette Heyer, Mary Stewart, C.S.Forester,
J.R.R.Tolkien, Dorothy L.Sayers, C.J.Cherryh, Michael Scott Rohan, Lois McMaster
Bujold, Terry Pratchett, Libby Purves, Elizabeth Goudge, Rudyard Kipling, Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle, George MacDonald Fraser, Susan Cooper, Stephen King, Josephine
Tey, Alexandre Dumas, Joan Aiken and Rosemary Sutcliff
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Name: J Forias
Age: 22
Favourite Authors (beside JKR): Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Jane Austen,
Douglas Adams, Timothy Zahn, C. S. Lewis and James Joyce.
Education: LLB in Law
In Real Life: I am in flux. I'm in the process of trying to publish
a novel, as well as doing placements in schools with the intention of becoming
an English Teacher. I am also studying an MA in English Literature, part time.
Zodiac: Scorpio
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Name:Jo Wickaninnish
Age: 20
Favorite authors (besides JK Rowling): Stephen King, Nicholas Sparks,
C.S. Lewis, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, J.D. Salinger
Education: B.A. in Theatre Production almost done... almost.
In real life: Undergradute theatre production student planning on becoming
a seminary student next year (provided some seminary is crazy enough to actually
accept me).
Zodiac: Leo
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Name: Lady
Narcissa
Age: About the same age Sirius would be if... oh well, same age as Remus.
And Peter.
Favorite authors (besides JK Rowling): James Joyce, Louise Erdrich,
Emma Bull, Ray Bradbury, William Butler Yeats, Pablo Neruda, Jim Thompson, William
Shakespeare...
Education: B.A., English Literature
In real life: Massage therapist, feral cat rescuer, mom to an active
10-year-old, fic writer, editor, and part-time Sirius.
Zodiac: Scorpio (of course)
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Name: Moey
(Deputy Headmistress)
Age: 87
Favorite authors (besides JK Rowling): Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne Rice,
Judy Blume, Madeleine L'Engle, Charlotte Bronte, Dr. Seuss, Russell Freedman,
Jean Fritz, Shel Silverstein, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lois Lowry, Louis Sarchar,
Maurice Sendak, J.D. Salinger, Berkeley Breathed, T.H. White, Geoffrey Chaucer
Education: B.A. in Geography, M.Ed.
In real life: Middle School Teacher
Zodiac: Capricorn
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Name: Mysterious
Muggle
Age: 22
Favorite authors (besides JK Rowling): J.R.R. Tolkien, John Marsden,
Aaron Allston, Roald Dahl, Terry Pratchet, Mathew Stover
Education: Part-way through a Bachelor of Information Technology
In real life: Student!
Zodiac: Leo
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Name: Night
Zephyr
Age: 46 (Im certain Ive aged in wizard years,
though)
Favorite authors: J.K.Rowling (naturally), J.R.R. Tolkien,
Madeline LEngle, Philip Pullman, A.A. Milne, J.D. Salinger, Roald Dahl,
C.S. Lewis, Ray Bradbury, Charles Dickens, Judy Blume, Jack Prelutsky, Shel
Silverstein, Louise Rennison.
Education: Bachelor of Science (theres always sniggering if I
dont spell it out!) in Child Development and Psychology. Im also
just a thesis away from a Masters in Education.
In real life: I work as a Bilingual Third Grade Teacher (sure, I can
beta in Spanish, too!). At home, I try to manage a household that resembles
the Burrow in many ways--lots of family, friends, teenagers, animals, music,
laughter, and general chaos.
Zodiac: Sagittarius, near the cusp of Scorpio
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Name: Norwegian Blue
Age: 23
Favorite authors (besides JKR): Neil Gaiman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
Bill Bryson, Terry Pratchett, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary
Roach, and Douglas Adams.
Education: B.A. in History.
In Real Life: I recently graduated with my very useful degree in history
and am working as a receptionist until I figure out where I'm going.
Zodiac: Cancer
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Name: nundu
Age: perpetually 87
Favorite authors (besides JK Rowling): Oh dear, I'm really
fickle; I'll read anything that strikes my fancy. Authors I've read repeatedly?
Ray Bradbury, Jeffrey Archer, Maeve Binchy, Philip Pullman, Tom Clancy, Eoin
Colfer, early Steven King, Herman Wouk, Leon Uris...the list goes on forever!
Education: Drama and Education and an MrS at the School of Hard Knocks
In real life: I'm an obsessive Harry Potter fan (duh!), love to sew,
crochet and all manner of handcrafts, draw, write, travel and enjoy my husband
and children. In my spare time I'm an Administrator at a very famous educational
camp (yes, it's open year around and you've heard of it).
Zodiac: Not my thing at all. I do share my birthday with Rupert Grint!
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Name: Ozma
Age: 41
Favorite authors (besides JK Rowling): JRR Tolkien, Peter
Beagle, Connie Willis, Sherri S. Tepper, Charles Dickens, Stephen King, Zilpha
Keatley Snyder, Susan Cooper, Neil Gaiman, Mollie Hunter, Tim Powers, Peter
David, Sharyn McCrumb, Harry Turtledove, Maggy Thomas, Brian Jacques, Robert
Westall, Jane Lindskold, Terry Pratchett, Mary Brown, Amy Tan, Lindsey Davis,
D.M. Thomas, Richard Adams, Charles de Lint, Diane Duane.
Education: B.A. Communication Theory
In real life: Former proofreader/copy editor, current mother
of two teenagers who works in a school
cafeteria so I can be with my kids after school and during the summer. My
cat thinks she owns me and she's
probably right.
Zodiac: Libra, but I never really got the hang of that whole
'balancing' thing.
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Name:PirateQueen
Age: 30s
Favorite authors (besides JK Rowling): It varies, but currently
George Eliot, Jane Austen, Christopher Marlowe, Wilkie Collins, Charlotte
Bronte, Philip Pullman, Val McDermid, Ian Rankin, P.J. Tracy, Garth Nix, Karin
Slaughter, Graham Hurley, Stuart Pawson.
Education: Ph.D. in Criminology
In real life: Criminology project researcher - which varies
between conducting research interviews, analysing data, writing journal articles,
teaching students and making coffee ...
Zodiac: Capricorn
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Name: Stubefied
Age: 26
Favorite authors (besides JK Rowling): Joan Aiken, Susan Cooper, Arthur
Miller, Mary Franics Shura, Zilpha Keatley Snyder,
Jerry Spinelli, Robert Westall, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Education: B.A. (Psychology), M.A.T. (Elementary Education)
In real life: I try to figure out why there's an inverse relationship
between my qualifications for a position and the principal's interest in hiring
me. Sometimes it's even funny.
Zodiac: I don't put much store in astrology, and you wouldn't either
if you shared a birthday with Voldemort. (We're Capricorns.)
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Name: Suburban
House Elf
Age: 41
Favourite authors (besides JK Rowling): Arthur Conan Doyle,
Nancy Mitford, Anthony Trollope, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, Douglas
Adams, Isaac Asimov, Bill Bryson, Sally Morgan.
Education: B.Ec. (an accountancy major – how dull),
Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws (majoring in revenue law – even
duller)
In real life: Burnt out lawyer, freelance writer for a law
book publisher and full-time mum to three demanding but delightful daughters.
Zodiac: I don’t believe in astrology. But I share
my birthday with Professor Flitwick. For what it’s worth, we’re
both Librans.
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Name: Sveltskye
Age: 19
Favorite authors (besides JK Rowling): Orson Scott Card,
Philip Pullman, LM Montgomery, J.R.R. Tolkien, Sophocles (you gotta love Antigone)
Education: High school, working on bachelor's degree (probably
in some combination of art major and medicine/forensics minor)
In real life: Well, see above. Add in obsessing
about Harry Potter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer and spending time with family
and friends and you've basically got the picture.
Zodiac: Pisces. I'm a dreamy fish
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Name: TDU
Age: 44
Favorite Authors (besides JK Rowling): Jane Austen, Anthony Trollope,
Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Drabble, A. S. Byas, Rose Tremain,
Tim Winton , Julian Barnes, David Lodge, Tim Winton (again because most of you
won't have heard of him and you really should read him), Peter Carey
Education: B.Sc. (Hons) in Microbiology, B.Ed (Primary). Studying for
a Diploma in pattern-drafting (means drafting patterns for made t0 measure clothes)
In real life: Kept Woman(!) and Mother but intend to set up business
shortly making formal dresses and charging exorbitant prices.
Zodiac: What?
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Name: Thrennish
Age: 23
Favorite Authors (besides JKR): Edward Gorey, Dave Barry,
Harper Lee, L.M. Montgomery, Lemony Snicket, Agatha Christie, Ellis Peters,
Dean Koontz (brain candy!)
Education: Not enough. Two years of dabbling in assorted
social sciences. Hope to return to school and pursue a degree in History and
eventually an MLS, but will probably just end up teaching.
In real life: Despite a ready and willing brain, I'm back
at home with the parental units while medical and immigration issues are sorted.
So, professional bum. :)
Zodiac: Aries/Taurus cusp, year of the monkey. (insert monkey
joke here)
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Name: Whimsy
Age: 23 1/2
Favourite authors (besides JK Rowling): All sorts. A glance at my bookshelves
reveals names like J.R.R. Tolkien, Patrick O'Brian, Douglas Adams, Robert Jordan,
Wilbur Smith, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Susan Hill, Ursula Le Guin, and
Frank Herbert. And that's just the first shelf...
Education: I've got a BSc and an MSc in Computer Science, and I'm working
on completing the set with a PhD. If I collect all three I get a free toy dinosaur.
In Real Life: You mean wizards aren't real? I'm a perpetual student,
except on Sundays when I'm a part-time Intergalactic Emperor.
Zodiac: Aries, the Golden Flying Sheep.
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Name: Yolanda
Age: 87 (I dare Dr. C to call himself old in my presence!)
Favorite authors: Anthony Trollope, Jane Austen, Leo Tolstoy,
Alexander Dumas, Victor Hugo, and when I feel like being depressed, Feodor
Dostoyevsky and Charles Dickens. I also like Michael Crighton, John Le Carre,
and Tom Clancy. I like non-fiction history books and biographies too. If I
want to laugh, there's always Dave Barry and Bill Bryson.
In Real Life: I'm an Assistant D.A. I work part-time right
now, preparing cases for submission to the Grand Jury. I read offense reports,
nag police officers for more evidence, decide whether we should seek indictment
and how the case should be indicted. The rest of the time, I care for and
nag my husband, son, and pet pug.
Degrees: No, I do not have a degree in nagging. I have a
B.A. in political science from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, and a
J.D. from the University of Texas.
Zodiac sign: Virgo
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Name: Zsenya
(Headmistress)
Age: 87
Favorite authors (besides JK Rowling): Jane Austen, L.M. Montgomery,
E. M. Forster, Paul Auster, Nikolaj Gogol, Thomas Pynchon, Vikram Seth, and
whoever else I'm into this week
Education: B.A., Russian Area Studies; M.L.S. (that's Masters
of Library Science!)
In real life: Curator for Historical Manuscripts, caretaker
of monkey fur capes, zebra skin rugs, and thought-provoking political publications
from the 1970s
Zodiac: Gemini
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