About

       I am a writer of short stories, novellas, and screenplays, who also reads audiobooks online, seeking publishing opportunities and voiceover work. My interest in and love of writing was sparked in my late teens, when I wrote poetry and a few stories. In 1990, one story and one poem were printed in a local publication called Think Ink, when I won Third Place and Honorable Mention for them respectively. Since then, I have lost interest in writing poetry, while my fiction tends to lengthen and broaden in scope as time goes on. Historical fiction and mixed genre tend to be my focus. As of this site's 2024 update, I've written what is my first novel-length work, which will be published this year and entitled Giallo Fever (as will a collection of short fiction entitled Parishani).

       Rare book collecting has become an avocation almost as passionately pursued as reading and writing. These can be almost anything, but about half of them are Science Fiction and Fantasy paperbacks from the 1960s, 1970s, and very early 1980s - an era of weird and garish cover art that will never be reproduced. I maintain a youtube channel devoted to reading pre-90s SF, covering works from Golden Age through the experimental New Wave. If interested, here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/@QuasarSpectraReadingsByDTSII/videos

       I am very happily married to Inanna Serene, a fellow artist who works in surface pattern design and illustration, in which she mixes natural imagery with Indian, Persian and Mediterranean motifs and styles. We are cat daddy and mama to two cats named Nova and Philippe. While we give as much time as possible to creative endeavors, we otherwise can be found seeking antiques, visiting shelters to spend time with animals awaiting adoption, and pursuing or developing vegan recipes. 

       I'm also a Tarot reader and deck collector, Taoist, animal activist, occultist, historian, bibliophile, naturalist, and infidel. 

       Finally, I'm a Taurus thoroughly ruled by Venus. In my case, the loyalty intrinsic to Taurean nature extends to the Oxford comma.