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    Meet the Author

    My first novel, Reboot - A Post-Apocalyptic Tale of Hope, is available online at most ebookstores! I didn't start out writing novels, but I'm more than happy to talk about how I go from idea to finished e-novel, including the fun of preparing your work for Amazon and Smashwords publication.

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    From one Reader to another

    You can't write good fiction without living and reading, so let me show you some of my favorite authors, stories, and novels. As for the living...

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    Story-based Games - the novelist's best friend

    Gone are the days of rolling dice around a friend's dining room table, slaying dragons. With games like Fiasco, Remember Tomorrow, and De Profundis, the lines between roleplayer and fiction writer are too blurry to matter. Let me show you why.

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    We are all Part-time Futurists

    The pace of modern life is way too fast for anyone to not be looking to the future for answers. I can't show you how to pick tomorrow's lottery numbers, but I can give you an idea of where we are going and a few techiques for separating signal from noise.

Published Works

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Cheater

Static Movement, July 2009

Hayden looked at his cards on the screen and grinned. His simulation predicted a pair of fours and there they were. He called the bet when it was his turn and nodded as the flop revealed another four and two jacks, just as predicted.

It was too easy.

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In The Shadow of the Oak

Absent Willow Review, October 2009

... As I make my way up the path to the woods at the end of the cul-de-sac, I hear his voice calling out, just like always, from somewhere up ahead. It is a little game we play- a sort of hide and seek. Coming, I reply. Maybe a bit slower than before, but time does that to you. I leave behind idle bulldozers amid the skeletons of partially built townhouses and memories return with each step...

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Sunset

Spark Project #9 (with BR Belletryst), September 2010

She appeared in my room after the nurse departed and sat on the edge of the bed, her slender fingers nervously stroking the thin cotton sheet draped over my feet. She hadn’t aged a day since I first saw her in that courtyard, playing a careless tune as she danced barefoot on the manicured lawn near the ancient tree in its center.

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Reboot - A Post-Apocalytpic Tale of Hope

Oscar Ridell is a hero to most towns he visits as he travels west, paying for room and board by restoring equipment fried by the Pulse. Few guess he's part of a national recovery effort; fewer still that their hero is a reformed alcoholic, haunted by the voices of his estranged wife and child. When a bandit attack leaves him on the run and bleeding to death, Oscar finds himself in an isolated town with no belongings and little to offer rescuers, other than his repair skills - something the town's leaders forbid he use lest he revive something harmful to their fragile community.

Winter is approaching, bandits control the roads, and the only means of contacting someone back east for help rests in the hands of a national guard unit who, Oscar discovers, are the source of the bandit attacks.

What Oscar wouldn't give for a working telephone... or a stiff drink.

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