Carla Sinclair (born August 15, 1964) is a writer whose credits include co-editing bOING bOING magazine and contributions to Wired magazine.

Author

Sinclair is former co-editor of bOING bOING, aka "The World's Greatest Neurozine," and was editor of the book Net Chick. She also was author of the cyberculture thriller Signal to Noise. She's been married for several years to Wired associate editor and writer Mark Frauenfelder. She is editor-in-chief of Craft magazine, published by O'Reilly Media.

Sinclair used the South Park/Bay Area/Wired milieu as background for Signal to Noise.

Trivia

Sinclair is the older sister of porn star Christy Canyon.

Sinclair appeared in an April 1996 Playboy magazine pictorial devoted to girls of the Internet.

Went to Sadie Hawkins Dance in high school with radio star Adam Carolla.

Books

Braid Crazy: Simple Steps for Daring 'Dos. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2003, ISBN 0-8118-3602-9.

Signal to Noise. San Francisco: HarperEdge, 1997, ISBN 0-06-251533-0 (cloth), ISBN 0-06-251534-9 (paper). [687]

Net Chick: A Smart-Girl Guide to the Wired World. New York: Henry Holt, 1996, ISBN 0-8050-4393-4.

The Happy Mutant Handbook: Mischievous Fun for Higher Primates (editor, with Mark Frauenfelder and Gareth Branwyn). New York: Riverhead Books, 1995, ISBN 1-57322-502-9.

External links

Interview in the Austin Chronicle