I'm a 53-yr-old Canadian.  Worked at many jobs until my early 40s... none of them long-term.  I'm on a pension now due to bi-polar mood disorder (which explains why the novel took so long: write-destroy, write-destroy... ad nauseum).  I am 3 times a father and I also have a granddaughter.  I am twice-divorced but this has not made me jaded towards matrimony.

My major influences are J. R. R. Tolkein, Frederik Pohl, Larry Niven and Stephen King.

As I said in my bio, there were times when I hated this novel... which, by the way, has grown to a novel of 259 pages!  I wanted to write a story containing fantasy and speculative fiction. A bit of a message ended up getting slipped in, also: one about brotherhood, with the rewards and sacrifices involved. (I'd like to point out to those of you who check out the preview: this eBook is not an H.P. Lovecraft pastiche... the prologue and it's Cthuhlu/Dagon elements are just part of the story leading to the stange things poor old Paul Baker Colson is going to have to face... and it ties in later in the novel. The rest of the story is all David J. Thompson, I promise you!) 

I hope you give my preview a look... maybe even give the novel a try. Thanks for "listening"!

P.S. Please give me reviews on my poems, articles, etc. I want feedback, people!