A Little Bio:

Yasmine is a shamanic witch, and walks an eclectic path. She considers her life a blend of teacups and tattoos--the former in her china closet, the latter on her skin. She's a theatre major, a graduate of the Evergreen State College (Olympia WA).

Married to Samwise Galenorn and the mother of four cats, Yasmine and her family reside in Bellevue WA. Because so many people ask, you pronounce her name this way: Yaz-mihn (NOT Jasmine--it's a "Y", not a "J"). Last name is pronounced: Gal-eh-norn The accent is on the first syllable. Interesting trivia: Samwise and Yasmine created their last name together after they got married. He first took Yasmine's last name, but then they decided to construct a name that would be theirs alone. So they created our last name out of the Elvish in LOTR. Galenorn means Green Tree in Elvish. And yes, Samwise is his legal name.

How she got her nickname: the Painted Panther: in a writing chatroom years ago. Because she was getting her first tattoo soon and because she was so tickled that it would have a black panther in it, a friend dubbed her the 'painted panther'...as she got more and more tattoos, the nickname caught on and since she thought it was cool, she kept it.