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I am a writing instructor/tutor, freelance writer/editor, and father who dabbles in writing fiction from time to time. I have also been an inventory control specialist/tech writer for a NASA contractor, a cashier in a university food court, and a library employee. My first publication came courtesy of Rick Silva (Kinships). Since then, I have published a number of academic book reviews (mostly in Extrapolation and the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts), a number of articles for Pyramid Magazine (Steve Jackson Games), a few academic articles (Extrapolation and JFA), an article in conference proceedings (When Genres Collide), a book of literary criticism (The Modern Literary Werewolf: A Critical Study of the Mutable Motif), and A Worldbuil ...more

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	When Genres Collide: Selected Essays from the 37th Annual Meeting of the Science Fiction Research Association, June 22-25, 2006, White Plains, New York by Thomas J. Morrissey (Editor), Brent A. Stypczynski (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Modern Literary Werewolf: A Critical Study of the Mutable Motif 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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I’ve reached the end of the worldbuild content that I had written up. I have . . . a lot of content in notes form that has not yet been typed or put in a form that is readable by anyone but me. Hopefully, I will be getting that stuff written up soon.

A large chunk of that is worldbuilding (125 pages of notes on one setting; more Labyrinth material; another setting that currently only exists

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“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now”
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“HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.”
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
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“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.”
― Morihei Ueshiba

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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

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