Backstory
Scales of Justice
In the mid 1980’s to early 1990’s I was plagued by an idea for a movie. Screenplay format was unknown to me, so I did what I knew to do. I wrote the idea in fiction. It all started with a comic book, Daredevil, specifically issues 181 and 191. In…
Reboot of First Novel – Crossing the Line
In the mid 1980’s to early 1990’s I was plagued by an idea for a movie. Screenplay format was unknown to me, so I did what I knew to do. I wrote the idea in fiction. It all started with a comic book, Daredevil, specifically issues 181 and 191. In…
Be strong and Courageous.
Back Story: The Canaanshade Journeys For this one time only, I’m going to give the background of multiple books in one single article. Why? Because The Canaanshade Journeys began as a single book. My original thought was to take my experiences (positive and negative) playing Dungeons & Dragons and weave both fact and fiction…
When Nothing Else Matters
It was the spring of 1983, my sophomore year at Southern Illinois University, and I had a short story assignment hanging over my head. In those days, you had to type (yes…type on a typewriter) the story using mimeograph paper. For those under the age of fifty, a mimeograph was…