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| Male |
| Rural Iowa |
| I drowned when I was three, didn't begin to speak until I was six, and struggled with language since then. I began writing at 32 and have written eighteen novels since then. I had to choose between writing or publishing because I worked for a living, so I choose writing. Now that I'm retired, I'm starting to publish my books/novels. |
| I am not driven to publish, I am driven to write. |
| I seek to be a prose stylist. |
| Writing, Waterfalls, Wolves, and whisky. Grace, grandeur, and German Shepherds. Music and movement and moments of beauty. Phi, fractals, and Fibonacci numbers. Absinthe, art, amore, and alliteration. |
| I am a member of the smallest minority group: the individual. |
| The Odd Thomas series, Innocence (Koontz), Jack of Shadows, Nine Princes in Amber, The World I live in (Keller), Hold the Dark (Giraldi); The Stars, the Snow, the Fires; Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; 2001:A Space Odyssey, Never Cry Wolf... |
| Roger Zelazny, Arthur C. Clarke, Dean Koontz, William H. Gass, Helen Keller, Annie Dillard, |
| Shakespeare, Dickinson, Whitman, Longfellow, Roethke, A.E. Houseman, |
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