ceciliatan edited the summary of Cecilia Tan Saturday, October 10 2009.
Maya’s fascination with speculative fiction dates fromI write about my passions, which include baseball, erotica, gourmet food, martial arts, and travel. I write fantasy, science fiction, erotic fiction, paranormal romance, and anything else that stimulates my imagination.
In the night her dad let her stay up to watch The Day the Earth Stood Still. Her short fiction haserotica field, I've been published in, among other places, Analog, Amazing Stories, Interzone, Paradox everywhere from Ms. magazine to Penthouse, and Jim Baen’s Universe,I'm in many, many anthologies and have been finalists forthe Nebula, Sidewise Alternate History and British Science Fiction awards.
Maya isBest American Erotica series. Susie Bright called me "simply one of the author of six fantasy novels,most recently MR. TWILIGHT from Del Rey—a collaboration with Michael Reaves. Her debut novel isimportant writers, editors, and innovators in reprint as a trade paperback from Sense of Wonder Press. Shecontemporary American erotic literature." Erotic books I've authored include Black Feathers, White Flames, The Velderet, Mind Games, The Hot Streak, and The Siren and the Sword (Magic University, Book One). I've also has a story ("The Natureedited many anthologies including Women of Things") in Best of Baen's Universe 2006,the Bite, Cowboy Lover, Sex In The System, Wicked Pleasures, SM Visions, for many different publishers, and another ("A Cruelmany many books and Unusual Punishment") inebooks for the Eppie Award-winning anthology, INFINITE SPACE, INFINITE GOD. Soon to be released are TAMINYindependent publishing house I founded, Circlet Press. Those include Best Fantastic Erotica, Erotic Fantastic, Like an Animal, Like Crimson Droplets, and THE CRYSTAL ROSE (books Twomany others, both for Kindle and Threein paperback.
In science fiction/fantasy I have been published in her Mer Cycle trilogy)Asimov's magazine, Strange Horizons, Absolute Magnitude, and a collection of her Baha'i oriented short fiction in I LOVED THY CREATION from Juxta Press.many other places.
Maya is also a musician/singer/songwriter and, with husband Jeff, has produced a trioIn baseball, I am the editor of original and parody CDs and a triothe Maple Street Press YANKEES ANNUAL, author of children.The CDs are: RETRO ROCKET SCIENCE, MANHATTAN SLEEPS50 Greatest Yankee Games, co-author of 50 Greatest Red Sox Games, the co-editor of THE FENWAY PROJECT, and ALIENS ATE MY HOMEWORK.co-editor of '75: The children are: Alex, KristineRed Sox Team That Saved Baseball. I write features for Yankees magazine and Amanda. The music is available from CDBabyother publications. I have a web site of baseball essays, called Why I Like Baseball, at http://whyilikebaseball.com.
You can find out way more about me and iTunes ... the children are not.my obsessions at www.ceciliatan.com
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