At IVC, she started exploring the intersections between computers and writing – experimenting with computer-generated poetry and initiating a program in CompuEnglish.
[6] Coverley has published two multimedia hypertext novels, Califia (Eastgate Systems, 2000) and Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day (Artist’s Book, Horizon Insight, 2006), a collection of short stories, Fingerprints on Digital Glass (2002), as well as other short fiction, poetry, interviews, and articles on electronic literature and born-digital writing.
It has Three Narrating Characters, Four Directions of the Compass, Star Charts, Map Case, Archives Files, 500 Megabytes, 800 Screens, 2400 Images, 30 Songs, and 500 Words.
[7] One scholar has written of Califia that it is designed to lead the reader "to discover the lost cache of California through her wanderings within the story space".
[7] It has been termed a classic of hypermedia,[9] and literary critic and hypertext scholar Katherine Hayles has cited it as one of the establishing texts for electronic literature.
It explores the ways in which narrative can be distributed between both text and other media, including images, music, animations, and the navigational structure and interface.
It includes Afterimage, Default Lives, Tide-Land, Universal Resource Locator, Eclipse Louisiana, Endless Suburbs, Life in the Chocolate Mountains, and Fibonacci's Daughter.
Fibonacci's Daughter is a complexly plotted hypertext centered on protagonist Annabelle Thompson, who runs a business called Bet Your Life out of a California mall.
Bet Your Life is both successful and controversial, leading Thompson to be accused of witchcraft (among other things), especially after two teenage clients disappear and are later found dead.
[12] Afterimage is a non-linear hypertext told in the first person as the narrator finds that her biological father is actually his brother, Trevor, who was her mother's real love.
As Hazel Smith describes this, the piece's many contrasting elements and a central letter from her real father to her mother that may or may not exist plays with imagination and memory.
Luesebrink worked as an editor for several publications, including The Blue Moon Review, Inflect, Riding the Meridian, and Word Circuits.