ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Despite my fifteen years as a netizen, I have long resisted even the notion of putting up a personal website. It seems conceited and self gratifying. However, anyone who dares to call them self a writer of mainstream literary fiction must find a vehicle through which to promote and market their work. This website is therefore a somewhat risky and humbling experience. It is also empowering, and intoxicating. It is impossible to be completely modest when promoting and marketing myself as someone who has actually written a novel worth reading. Only those few who have endured that marathon can understand the hard work and self sacrifice necessary to complete the task.

I was published for the first time as a junior in college, at age 20, and many times since, primarily writing humor and political satire editorials, and as a gardening and humor columnist for a small newspaper group in Rhode Island, USA. Writing a novel is a consuming journey and a humbling process. I still post editorials on newspaper websites, I have material on Blogspot, I post regularly on Open Salon. As an early netizen, I had the distinction of posting what was, in 1996, the longest thread (the prototype to blogging) in the history of Hotwired.com. The forum was called Brain Tennis, and the title of the thread was "Who Cares...? ...Are you changing the universe today...?" This is still a relevant question for each of us; and perhaps more so now than ever before.

We are, ultimately, fellow citizens of One planet Earth, brothers and sisters All.