About Francine
Francine is a writer and artist who also happens to have thirty years of experience as a pharmaceutical scientist and medical writer. She loves dogs and most four-legged animals, but is terrified of birds and fish. She's a foodie and amateur cook (fun fact: she’s always thought drug/formulation development shared similar principles used in the culinary arts). An unabashed Anglophile, she loves Wales and Britain, and everything Arthurian (but oh-ho-ho, not the bastardized French version of Arthuriana).
An avid reader, she reads across genres but prefers historical fiction, the classics, fantasy and sci-fi. She'll just as eagerly read YA, literary fiction, mysteries, thrillers and romances though. She is, however, quite allergic to horror novels and most non-fiction (scientific and narrative non-fiction, notwithstanding).
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Since 2000, she's been working on The Bear of Britain Chronicles, a four-part historical fiction series based on the Welsh Arthur (and no, Lancelot will not be featured in her novels). In 2023, she tried her hand at ghostwriting romance novels, but realized she couldn't bear to part with the stories and characters she'd created. Clearly, ghostwriting was not in her future, especially after she offered to buy back her stories. Alas, her clients declined her propositions.
While she's published scientific and academic papers and patents, she's proudest of her creative efforts, placing Second in Fiction at the 2019 Philadelphia Writer's Convention for her short story, "Uther". Another Arthurian short story, "Retribution", was published in 2024's The Ogham Stone: The Literary Journal of the University of Limerick.
These days, when she isn't consulting as a medical writer, she mostly splits her time between writing and editing, and being a fluid artist.
Visit her art website at www.fuzzyfluidart.com. She'd appreciate you following her on social media: Facebook, Goodreads and Instagram (links below).
