I've been writing since ... well, since before I could write. When I was a toddler, I used to draw squiggly lines on a sheet of paper and insist that I was writing something. Those epics have not been preserved. The desire and need to put words on paper have survived, however.
In spite of which, for a long time I dabbled in writing, fiddled around with it, started stories and didn't finish them. Then stopped doing even that. And whined about my desire to be a writer. One day, after listening to me whine, my wife, Leonore, said, "So why don't you write?"
It was as though a light had gone on. Well, yeah, why didn't I write? So I finished some stories and managed to sell a couple of them, and then I finished a novel and sold it to a major publisher. I was a writer. (I'm leaving out the hard parts, but they're rather boring, really.)
The published stuff is listed below. Click on the titles for more information about each work.
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Damon the Caiman |
In the early days, some of my short stories were published in men's magazines, and I don't mean Playboy. They were all pretty good stories, in my opinion, with science-fictional or fantasy elements, but that wasn't what attracted the editors. Later, I sold some to more standard genre outlets. The e-book revolution has inspired me to put those and a few unpublished stories together as a collection, published as an e-book.
For more details about the collection, click on this link: Earthmen and Other Aliens.
It coulda been a contenduh. However, it was published just about the time that that creepy buffoon Ronald Reagan became President and killed the then-nascent solar energy industry, starting with his symbolic act of ripping out the solar energy panels Jimmy Carter had had installed at the White House. Bastard. The book is now an historical artifact. It's still available in some libraries.
It's a book! It's an essay! It's a long essay published as an e-book. Which is appropriate, given that the theme of the book is the way self-published e-books will change the nature of fiction. Click here for more.