Name: Maggie/bliumchik/Captain Oblivious
Email: maggie [spambreak] bloome @ gmail

Experience/Brief Bio: I've been a voracious reader all my (literate) life, and more to the point have been editing my less-than-fluent immigrant parents' correspondence for most of that time. I'm also the one my friends send assignments over MSN for advice, am currently enrolled in a Writing degree in which critique exchange is part of the classwork, am editor-in-chief of my university's Writer's Society's 'zine (less prestigious than it sounds, mostly consists of fiddling with Publisher and organising stapling parties) and as if that wasn't enough editing to do I moonlight as an Online Tutor so I can rant at high schoolers about passive voice. Obviously what I need is to do more editing!

I'm based in Sydney, Aus, love and intend to participate in punk rock, spec fic, poetry and comic books, am a fan of snakes and cats (luckily, not into genetic engineering), regularly make a fool of myself in the name of Theatresports and in my spare time I go down to the local Escrima class and hit things with sticks.

Strengths: Have picked up awesome grammar and syntax instincts apparently by osmosis. Also, decent grasp on story structure and an intense appreciation for interesting metaphors, poetic language and snappy dialogue.
Weaknesses: Deadlines. Homonyms. Words with two sets of ss's in them. Can be flippant if I don't like the subject matter.
Preferred Genres: Fantasy, science fiction and horror; related Weird. Can branch out especially if the story is Humour based.
Fandoms: to varying extents Bandom, Discworld, Sandman, Transmetropolitan, Batfamily, Firefly, Hornblower, Good Omens, Vorkosigan books, Hitch-hiker's Guide, Daily Show et al, misc/other: inquire within.
Preferred Ratings: no preference
Would Rather Not: deal with squicks like incest or non-crack-humorous mpreg; beta REALLY lengthy stuff unless I really love it; clean up after people who don't know what spellcheck is for.
Original Fiction/Nonfiction: Y