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 as well as selected some of my short stories for a collection, both of which are awaiting the right publication opportunities; however, I am considering readings of my own fiction for Spotify.

       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 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 and Spotify podcast called Quasar Spectra where I read pre-90s science fiction online, for which there's a page on this site. There's also a page linking my second Spotify podcast, where you'll find all my other readings (history, science, occult, and the classics).

       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 three cats: Nova, Philippe, and Denholm. While we give as much time as possible to creative endeavors, we otherwise can be found seeking antiques, developing vegetarian recipes, rescuing stray animals and facilitating the trasition of those lost and without chip or tag to new homes, or visiting shelters to spend time with those awaiting adoption. 

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

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