I'm a writer, teacher and publisher, calendar creator and advocate for slow time. I've written 14 novels and 9 are published under 3 names. I write humorous mysteries with Curt Colbert under the name Waverly Curtis. I write historical fiction and non-fiction under the name Waverly Fitzgerald. And my historical romances were first published under Nancy Fitzgerald. I occasionally blog for the Seattle PI as the Urban Naturalist. And i write about slow time and seasonal time at my website Living in Season. I read fiction to learn more about how to write the novels I love, so I am generally reading historical fiction and mysteries. In non-fiction, I like almost anything that teaches me something, with a special emphasis on topics I am writing about in my fiction (Victorian London, the English Civil War) or essays (flowers, family history, walking). And I love memoirs.