About

Wondering about the strange woman behind the curtain, eh? (All right, never mind the fact that there is no curtain. )

I’m Nonny Morgan. Technically, it’s not my legal name, but it will be eventually. I hate my birth name, and as such, I’ve written under various pen names over the years, including H. E. Smith (that’s part of the legal…) and Nonny Harper (hey, I was seventeen when I picked it, gimme a break here). Currently, I write romance as Elisabeth Drake, erotica as Vera Nightshade, and fantasy as Alina Morgan.

I’m a published fiction writer specialising in dark fantasy with integral romantic elements, although I also write romance, science fiction, horror, and erotica. If you want to be anal-retentive about it, “dark romance/fantasy crossover” is the closest approximation.

If you’re interested in reading more about my work, follow the “Fiction” link above.

I’m founder and administrator of Evolution, an online writing community dedicated to bringin’ back love of the craft. I’m also a moderator at Romance Divas and occasionally hang out at Speculations’ Rumor Mill.

As for the “mundane” details, I live in the general Boston area with my wicked, muse-inciting slavedriver husband, Alan Morgan, my crazy indescribable boyfriend Paul, and four nutjob cats. Oh, and way too many computers to count. For the not-so-mundane, I’m a polyamorous bisexual non-theistic pagan writer goth chick. I end up looking at things, well, from the outside of the box. Think square peg, screw round hole.

If you want to contact me, there’s multiple ways to do so:
Email
The Blog
The LiveJournal
AIM: mistressnonny
Yahoo: mistressnonny
MSN: amazonkitty@hotmail.com

Blog/LJ Note: My blog here at emdrake.com is specifically for writing-related and loosely personal topics. Prepare to find rants, raves, snippets, progress updates, and the odd “real life”-related post. I also keep a personal LiveJournal, and I have an open friending policy. Unless there’s a good reason for me not to do so, I’ll friend you back (disclaimer: whenever I get around to checking who’s friended me recently). I’m very open and frank (also a curmedgeon before my time, and I don’t hold the bitchiness) on my LJ. If you’re not comfortable with sometimes explicit posts about goth, polyamory, paganism, lesbianism/bisexuality, BDSM, sex, etc., you’re probably better off not reading it.

IM Note: If you decide to IM me, please be forewarned that I may not always be at the computer. (I have my client set to idle, but not all clients seem to recognize it.) Or, I may be too busy to chat. Still, feel free to ping me, and I’ll get to you when I can. Should you use Yahoo, please mention in your opening message you’ve read my work or such. Unfortunately, I get a lot of unsolicited and unwanted male attention in Yahoo , so if a message isn’t identifiable, I tend to auto-block. (Otherwise I’d spend way too much time beating away creepy jackasses. )