Phoenix Living

Reesa Brown is currently living, writing, and working in an area spanning from Austin to the Brazos Valley area of central Texas. (That’s me!) I’m living in The Dream Café with Steven Brust, Nathaniel Eliot, and our small menagerie, and I have one of the best groups of loving family and friends available on this planet. The weekly poker games and daily hot tub soaks don’t hurt the quality of life, either.

As a child I really liked some advice given to eager young writers to accumulate life experiences and a varied perspective through a variety of interesting jobs. As an adult I’ve firmly committed to the jill-of-all-trades skill acquisition path, and depending on how you count it I’m on at least my fifth career, all with some measure of professional success achieved (and hopefully more to come on the current ones). And that’s just the more dedicated careers, not to mention the quite quirky collection of jobs to pay the bills in-between–like horse vulva washer, body piercer, and even food service management. Do I think the early advice helped my writing? I think it’s certainly not the only path to a writerly perspective, but I’ve enjoyed the rides and learned quite a bit along the way so I can say it’s worked for me.

I’ve since “settled down” to a life of life of full-time writing, while owning and managing a piercing and tattoo studio…and parenting Team Genius for the next generation, and plotting how to change the world without having to take it over evil-overlord-style, and learning to make a tasty loaf of wheat bread, among many other passions. I’m even thinking of returning to school at some point in the near future! For fun and catwaxing I try to learn at least three new skills per year, though where the year is measured may flex a bit. I sleep an average of 5-6 hours per “day”, am establishing better physical care habits–and am still working on the most efficient way to balance this complex juggling act. I’ll figure it out, as I tend to do, since I have the best people support I can imagine available to me to help achieve these and any other goals that I find inspiring. It’s often a hard life, but oh so beautiful as well.

About the Site

Reesa’s website is hosted by T9 Productions.