Ellie McDowell in another life fashioned herself as E.M. Goldsmith and wrote one awful book, Salvation Taverns. Then she died. In a car wreck. It was terrible, both the car wreck and the book. No really, horrific. The funeral might have been nice.

In the dimension in which she survived, she is Ellie McDowell, a much more competent writer. Not a very nice person, however. Even demons find her annoying. Make of that what you will.