I am a 34 year old former soldier in the U.S. Army. I am married and have accumulated five kids (four from this marriage and one from a previous marriage who lives with his mother. My hobbies include collecting comics, reading, a little drawing (to relax when I can find that precious spare time), listening to music (eclectic taste here- everything but opera and polka is acceptable to my ears; yes, yes, it is probably because I don't understand Italian, but polkas tend to make me violent), playing bass, drums, keys, and wrestling with the violin (a few instruments that I have laying around the house), and of course, speculative fiction writing. (Was that a run-on sentence or what?)

I have a mind for useless trivia (useless unless of course I plan to go on Jeopardy). Movie trivia, music trivia, and an attentiveness to what is happening in the news and the world around me has fueled my habit for speculation. Mixed  that with a healthy dash of world history that I absorbed when I wasn't paying attention in school. Combine with an over active imagination and you have a recipe for speculative fiction. Being able to write a little bit helps too. After a time, everything I came across started to run through a kind of mental filter of potential relevance to my idol speculation.

Since my eighth grade year, I have sketched at story ideas and a little poetry. I have accumulated quite a few sketches and drafts since then. I have been speculating on things for as long as I can remember. "What if this had happened instead of that, then the results would be . . . or worse yet . . ." I probably drove my parents crazy with questions in my attempt to create more realistic and believable speculation.

To date, I have published nothing. However, a strange thing happened in my head while I was deployed to Saudi Arabia for Desert Storm. My accumulated sketches congealed into one big story, actually about six in a series. Since then, I have been plugging along at them a little bit here, a little bit there. I now take this hobby a little more seriously and have been reading about writing, practicing my craft, and doing extensive research on topics related to the series.
 

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