Like some of his characters, he has a propensity for speaking in lines from 80s movies, drinking Mountain Dew and eating pizza. He loves music as a listener, a zealous fan, a guitar player, and a singer/songwriter.

After nearly 20 years as a schoolteacher, he is beginning to have a hint of insight into young-adulthood. He has been in that hood a long time!

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Third Generation Writer

At first, I focused on short fiction, writing about one story a month. Between 1996 and 1998 I made over 100 submissions to various publications. Then in 1998, submission #141, I made my first sale: Shooting Star sold to Millennium SF&F. I made a total of $30 and earned myself the title of “Published Author.”

Getting My First Sale

Science Fiction and Fantasy have been a huge part of my life since the golden age of 10, but I hadn’t considered writing it. At the age of 23 in 1990, during an all-night study session, I started my first novel, while I should have been writing a Research Paper for my Russian Literature in Translation class. The paper got a D. The novel probably deserves a similar grade. Not long after I read a Spider Robinson novel, Time Pressure, and I sat down the next day and wrote my first speculative fiction story.

Roberts’ Rules of wRiting

• Rule One: You Must Write “Regularly. It is a job, even if you are not getting paid yet.”
• Rule Two: Finish What You Start or “Don’t start something you don’t know how to finish.”
• Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order or “Don’t tinker endlessly with your story.”
• Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market “until you are certain it is crap and you will be embarrassed to see it published.”
• Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold or “You run out of markets.”
• Rule Six: Start Working on Something Else or “Always be working on other ideas, stories, characters.”