Kathy Ashton is Editor Emerita (too old and too tired to work that hard any more) of The Inkslinger (the store newsletter). Her nonfiction has also been published in Network and Sunstone magazines, and she was delighted to have one of her Booksense blurbs published in their New Yorker ad. She is a former Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, and is currently working on her first novel, which she hopes will be finished some time in this millennium. She holds a degree in English from Westminster College.