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Though I enjoyed writing stories at an early age, I spent a good deal of the 90s earning a B.A in Psychology and a Masters in Information Technology. My creative outlet came in the form of penning song lyrics instead of prose. After finally having a bit of life under my belt, I turned my attention back to fiction, writing several short stories that can be found both online and in print. The release of my novella, Riverside Blues, by award-winning publisher Earthling Publications was met with glowing reviews. While I also enjoy photography, reading, playing guitar and singing, I get the most joy from being a husband and father.

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Published on January 15, 2012 07:39 • 8 views • Tags: ebook, free, horror, kindle, love, mystery
Average rating: 4.20 · 61 ratings · 25 reviews · 6 distinct works
Riverside Blues
4.55 of 5 stars 4.55 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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The Space Between
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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blindspot
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2002
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The Blackest Death: Volume II
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4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Shadow Regions
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4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006
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Darkness Rising 2005
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THE DREAM KEEPER by Langston Hughes
THE DREAM KEEPER
by Langston Hughes
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After Many Springs

Now,
In June,
When the night is a vast softness
Filled with blue stars,
And broken shafts of moon-glimmer
Fall upon the earth,
Am I too old to see the fairies dance?
I cannot find them any more.
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Eight Years Four Months - The Relationship Between Quantum Physi... by William Joseph Bray
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Amazon Prime trial expired...have to finish this one later, but so far it's been quite intriguing. The reviews are right about the need for some major editing and somewhat arrogant tone. Still, the ideas and science backing them up are worth those de...more
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The 5 Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman
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ANIMOSITY by James Newman
ANIMOSITY
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The Fire Within by Chris d'Lacey
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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Middlesex
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An epic, sweeping story covering the main character's family history, I feel like this book fell short of engaging me in any way beyond that. I never found myself looking forward to reading on, but the story was interesting enough to enjoy much like ...more
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
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I think this is my third foray into Murakami's works. Not my favorite, and I might have given it a three if it hadn't felt like a perfect combination of fun and surreal.
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Paulo Coelho
“Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.

Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

I don't know.”
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

Joseph Campbell
“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Joseph Campbell

Milan Kundera
“He had never wanted to know anything about the part of her intimate life that he had not shared with her. Why should he take an interest now, still less take offense at it? Anyhow, he asked himself, what is an intimate secret? Is that where we hide what's most mysterious, most singular, most original about a human being? Are her intimate secrets what make Chantal the unique being he loves? No. What people keep secret is the most common, the most ordinary, the most prevalent thing, the same thing that everybody has: the body and its needs, its maladies, its manias-constipation for instance, or menstruation. We ashamedly conceal these intimate matters not because they are so personal but on the contrary, they are so lamentably impersonal.”
Milan Kundera

Simon Van Booy
“You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”
Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After: A Novel

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message 4: by Kim

Kim Thanks for the friend invite, Erik! Now I'm on a mission!


message 3: by Elyse

Elyse Congrats on the recent release! I can't wait to read http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64230...


message 2: by Nikki

Nikki Why am I the only one that ever makes comments on your lonely profile??? I ordered Blindspot! I'm way excited.


message 1: by Nikki

Nikki Ha - never judge a book by its movie. I love it. Just wanted to tell you that my husband read your book until one o'clock this morning and then he woke me up because he HAD to talk about it :) I knew it would affect him the same way it affected me!


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