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Biography
I've been
writing SF, Fantasy and Horror since I could read. While other fathers were
reading Disney stories to their kids, mine would wait until my mother was
out of earshot, then treat me to some creepy classic from Edgar Allan Poe.
Soon I was devouring H.P. Lovecraft tales, and moving on to King, Straub,
Tolkien and everything else I could find to scare, thrill and amaze. And
after closing each book I'd find time to dream that someday I'd try to do
what they had done; and then I'd imagine that maybe someday I would help
another kid stay up after a story, afraid to turn off the closet light.
After winning a creative
writing award in High School, I went on to place several short stories, then
my first novel, Twilight of the Fifth Sun, in 1998, after five years
of writing and publishing short stories. In 2005 I won second place in L. Ron Hubbard's Writer's of the Future Contest (for
my story 'The Red Envelope', which is in the current Anthology, volume XXIII).
The Belhurst
Story was my first effort at non-fiction, although
its focus remained rooted in the supernatural sightings occurring at this
site in the Finger Lakes.
Currently I'm shopping
around to agents several novels and screenplays (and working on short
stories, another novel and another screenplay, following that fickle muse... )
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