about me

Mercencary narratologist. Vocational tourist. Cosmopolitan vagabond. He might be considered a reluctant maverick.

He's in it without any altruistic delusions. He does what he does for his own sake. He learns as much, if not more, from sharing as he does from study and application. If sharing a few insights he's gleaned from personal experience or evaluating another writer's work for his own ends offers useful input, it's all to the good.

Meanwhile, in the metaphysical realm, his Muse Diane requires him to pay forward before she will allow him to move forward.

favourite books

I don't have a favorite book, story, creative vision, or creative slant. I'm a reading ominvore. I have a range of novels on my test bench for evaluating method, contrasting and comparing, and for inspiring emulation.

Recent and past reads that hold my interest and engage me deeply, or are on my must-read list, by author in no particular order; Maugham, E. Annie Proulx, Donna Tart, Mark Richard, Thomas Harris, Ludlum, Grisham, Clancy, Rowling, Marjorie Rawlings, Tolkien, Hemingway, Cherryh, Card, Stoker, Michener, Shelley, Wells, Orwell, Baum, Dr. Seuss, DiCamillo, Meyers, Jacqueline Susann, Niffenegger, Lawrence, Nabokov, Chekhov, Dostoyevski, Gurdjief, Vonnegut, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Cassidy, Ospenski, London, Dickinson, Austen, Bradley, McCaffrey, Kesey, Wolf, Wolfe, and Wolff, Cormier, Voigt, Homer, Geoffrey of Monmouth, and on and on into and througout the opus of literature. Alas, there's so little time for the best of the best.

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