This is my homepage, newly updated to be the central gateway and repository for all things Joy.

There's the boring stuff, like my CV, just in case there is someone out there who needs a multi-talented individual for a challenging, autonomous and massively well-paid role in their organisation.

There's the obligatory bits about my partner and my brat daughter, and where I live.

There are links to my various methods of making a living --

• I do website and document design and training, pretty damn well, if I do say so myself.

• I run a second hand bookstore, and yes, I do mail-order - I'm in the process of putting the shop online properly with all the e-commerce frills, but in the interim a quick e-mail might well net you some brilliant bargains.

• I design T-shirts an' stuff, which I market through cafepress - although they aren't geeky in any way, and they have nothing whatsoever to do with pop culture, I still think they're more than marginally cool.

• I've got an e-book for sale, How to Write Poetry.

• Lastly, I tutor at Massey University in Creative Writing - this is a distance learning/extramural paper that's getting very good press. I also teach Communication for Science Students.

Of course, I'm a pragmatist, and although I think any of the above would be a damn good way to spend a little of your hard earned money, I don't really expect you to do so. That being the case, I've got links to a few other things too, which reflect my interests, and you don't have to pay for.

Writing is the central thread of my tapestry. I've written fan-fiction in a number of worlds - Eddings' Belgariad, being the primary, but recently I've been looking at Sharpe and Flashman and having a lot of fun.   Although I'm not a worshipper of Anne McCaffrey as an author I like to play on Pern, and I'm a member of Lakesedge Weyr - McCaffrey doesn't allow online publication of fanfic, so if you're interested in this genre, you'll have to join a Weyr/Club, and I consider Lakesedge one of the best with a higher-than-usual proportion of real, mature writers to angsty teenage fangirlies.

And then, there's the filks.

I also edit a 'zine, called ExtraVerse which contains some of my own original writing, along with the work of a lot of other very talented individuals.

I've been a member of the usenet froup alt.fan.pratchett  for around eight or nine years now, and have managed to get about a bit and meet wodges of  wonderful people who inhabit Terry Pratchett fandom, although most of them live on the other side of the world to me -- bastards! As a consequence, I spend far too much time chatting with them on lspace IRC.

I'm trying to develop a new world to role-play in and write fiction based around the situations and characters - new players are not only welcome, but actively sought, since as yet there aren't enough people involved to do anything very productive with. Go look at it, and if you have the time and inclination, please join.

And then there's the stuff I like that doesn't fit anywhere else

Finally, I have a blog and I'm involved with a major interactive website. If you're really interested, you can mail me to get the URLs, but they are both semi-private, so I'm not going to link to them here.