Part-time author 🪶⚓ Full-time pirate
Hi! I'm Liz. I'm a freelance writer, indie author, and full-time, off-grid, live-aboard sailor. I’m currently sailing around the world with my boyfriend and my dog, turning my real-life adventures into speculative fiction.
I am extremely grateful to be able to explore the world as I do, and I love incorporating the experiences, places, and people I encounter on my travels into my work.
I also use my books as a means to explore themes of mental health, addiction, technology, climate change, and the looming collapse of society (but, like...in a fun way.)
When I'm not penning novels about the impending apocalypse, I work as a freelance writer in the tech and off-grid living niches. On the rare occasion I'm not writing, you can find me swimming, complaining about the weather, telling my dog I love her for the bazillionth time today, or watching Taskmaster.
Our floating home
We live on a 43ft Morgan Center Cockpit sailboat called Loki. We bought the boat in 2019 (just before the pandemic) after almost 6 years of work and planning. We didn't actually set out on our adventure until nearly two years later, in September of 2021.
Our journey began in Santa Cruz, CA. From there, we sailed down the Pacific Coast of the US into Baja California. We spent about a year in Mexico before continuing south through Central America (Guatamala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Hondurus, Costa Rica, and Panama.) In March of 2023 we came through the Panama Canal to the Caribbean.
Loki is a wonderful home, albeit a little small at times! We live pretty simply and with minimal expense and waste, procuring our own water and generating our own power from solar.
One of my favorite things about this way of life is the freedom it has given both of us to explore work we love. I'm not saying everyone pursuing creative work should embrace a minimalist lifestyle...but I'm also not NOT saying that.
Meet the crew
Trevor Hope
Trev is the indispensible captain of this ship, without whom, let's face it, the whole operation really falls apart. He's an excellent sailor, outstanding electrician, and can fix just about anything. We've been together 15 years.
Aloy Bonesnatcher McGee
We rescued Aloy from GEPDA rescue in San Martin, CA in 2017. She came to us with some behavioral issues, including aggression toward strangers. We still have to manage that from time to time, but she's calmed down a lot in her maturing years. She's an amazing guard dog and once she gets to know a person, she is ride-or-die. Readers may recognize her as Malarkey from the Thalassic Series.