: About Me

I was born in Chicago, Illinois in the year 1954. My first encounter with writing began when I learned to read and discovered a world of books in the Public Library. I read voraciously and was particularly influenced at a very young age by the works of Edgar Allen Poe. Later favorite writers included Ray Bradbury, Robert A. Heinlein, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Harlan Ellison and Stephen King.

I began my own writing first with poetry and songs. Then I wrote short stories, comic book scripts and free verse, moving into the realms of horror and surrealism. My first published piece ever was "A Song for Julie" in a small poetry chapbook put out from South Pasadena Senior High School in California where I moved in 1969. I graduated in 1972 having published some things for the school paper The Tiger. I was also art editor of the Tiger for three years. I am also a published illustrator and fine artist as well as a graphic artist. By the late 1970's I had moved from my first comic book stories in Fantastic Comics #1, to writing and illustrating horror stories for such magazines as 2 AM and Etching's and Odysseys. I also began producing my own small magazines, had some chapbooks of poetry done and printed and published some volumes of my surrealistic works.

I have had many editorial letters published in national magazines including the New Yorker and International magazines like Fortean Times. I have been a newspaper reporter and journalist for the Glendale Free Press. I have written screenplays, stage plays, melodramas, skits, and commercials. I now have two books out, one a journalistic endeavor about my spiritual experiences called: Speaking of Angels. And the other a 760 page novel about Dracula called: Blood of the Dragon: the Journals Of Vlad Draculya, The Impaler. Most of my recent articles have appeared in beth Robbins :The Gate To Strange Phenomenon and on Helium.com which I discovered last year.

I am currently living in Scottsdale, Arizona with my wife of 21 years and am fifty four years old with no children. I am currently working on three new novels and another spiritual book.

My passion is ...

Writing and Art

I know too much about ...

Dracula

My parents always told me ...

I had too much imagination

My childhood ambition ...

To be the next Edgar Allen Poe

My favorite memory ...

Hiking the high Sierras

Why I write ...

To stop the demons! No really, to stop the DEMONS!

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

History of the Fourth Crusasde, The Daily Show, Hits from 1955

My first job ...

Sheet metal worker.

My best moment ...

When my novel was published...I cried.

My inspiration ...

E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Patricia Denning

Health & Fitness > Infectious Diseases Living with Morgellon's disease

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Synchronicity has always been a facet of my life. At times it can be rather surprising how things work out in just such a way that makes the event seem both positive and meaningful. In 2007 I had written an article on Morgellon's disease for a magazine called The Gate (a small-press magazine which is dedicated to various paranormal phenomenon and weird news from around the world. It is a smaller condensed version of Britain's famous Fortean Times). Usually I do illustrations for The Gate (now called The Gate to Strange Phenomenon), however the publisher, Beth Robbins, gave me the O.K. to w...

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