Mushroom Cloud, a fact-based historical novel, is the first book of The First Strike Trilogy: USA and the Soviet Union are building nuclear arms for a face off in a potential nuclear war in the late 1950's and early 1960's.
A Collection of Voices from Around the World is more than just a poetry compilation. It is a partnership of poets from around the globe brought together by an internet poetry forum. That forum, poetrypages.com, has been the home of many a fine poet s
I have been writing constantly since second grade. I have one poem that was published by a traveling poetry teacher. I write novels, short stories, and poetry, as well as technical, but that was for my job.
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I had a few creative writing assignments in high school, even writing an original short story for a final, on the spot.
I have met one of my favorite authors, Ray Bradbury, and got to speak with him 1 on 1 and he gave some writing advice. Other influences include Hunter S.Thompson, Thorne Smith, Ogden Nash, Stephen King, Thoreau, John Kennedy Toole, Abbie Hoffman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Shel Silverstein, Robert Frost, Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Homer, Arthur C. Clark, Douglas Adams, George Orwell, and Maurice Sendak, Charles Dickens, and an eclectic list of others. I write various genres.I
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My on the spot short story from High School garnered an award by the Virginia High School League writing contest. I earned an award from NASA for my technical writing of acceptance test procedures for my work on “The Safe Return to Manned Spaceflight” program.
I studied creative writing at UC San Diego, when I could sandwich such classes between Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (code writing) and Media Production, film and video and studied three writing classes: Warren Writing (a write by class named after Justice Earl Warren, Ancient Chinese writing, Film and Fiction in the 20th Century, and writing for publication, as well as Mythological and Religious writing.
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