About the Author

 If I was as I am now, then, would I still end up the man I am today? Would I be better, or worse?

I've been coming up with that as the years have progressed more than the nation has, and it's people, who I'm not too sure can be as proud as I am to be an American. (Of course maybe not everyone understands why you would be proud to be an American. I'm sure many of you will be more proud to call yourself a socialist, because it's cool to hate on America so much, you have to switch to a fantasy la la land of ideas and philosophy to show everyone your status. Where you stand, that kind of thing.) 

    Well I'm happy to tell you, I am proud to be an American, and that is going to be very apparent here on this blog. My stories are very American, even if some of my influences in art comes from other regions across the world. In fact I have no problems in telling you right here and now where the best of the best come from. Germans made the greatest silent films. The French make the only movies where lesbians are characters, and not propaganda for your children. And Japan can't let go of their nationalism to save there life, which we should thank, considering it allowed them to deliver the greatest Godzilla movie of all time, GODZILLA: MINUS ONE. On the other hand, they also have catered to an increasingly deplorable and despicable and perverted audience in anime.

    But my stories are still as American as they come. No they are not in line as the "Great American Novel". I'm not even sure that ever existed, but know that people will tell you it does. It will just be a different title every time. Do you know an answer that won't be as in the air? Who is the best pulp character? Who is the best pulp writer? Well even though many people WILL have their own individual opinion, I can say that if you name drop The Shadow, or Robert E. Howard, everyone will agree, even if it goes against their own personal favorites. If you tell me Robert E.Howard was the best pulp writer, I will agree with you, even though I don't read him as much as others. (My money is always on Burroughs) 

    Now, my influences have derived from many different mediums, and they continue to expand, even to now. As a young boy, my parents showed me a movie called JAWS. It was the greatest thing I have ever seen. Then I saw the movie Alien. (Granted, I saw Aliens first) but when I saw Alien, it was impossible for me to stop watching it. I had a VCR back then, and the movie was borrowed from the Connetquot Public Library on Long Island NY. I'm surprised the tape never wore out. Then after that, I saw a war movie that made me cry. And I mean cry. I bawled. I was bummed. I was depressed. But it was such a beautiful ending. That movie was called Glory, starring Matthew Broderick, and Dezel Washington, Morgan Freeman, and the awesomely talented and versatile Cary Elwes. These were just movies though of course, but little would I know they would play a large role in my preference for fiction in general. Books, movies, comics, TV, all of it. 

    Now I went through an interesting time that we can all relate to. I had books tossed at me left and right. "Read more books." my Mother would say. Over and over and over again. Everyone thought Harry Potter would do it, but no. Though I did fall in love with the cover art, and DID collect every 1st edition Harry Potter novel upon release for the art alone. (I do not have them anymore, and my bank account will never let me forget it) but sometime DID come from that. 

    Back at the library, after becoming engrossed by Star Wars, I found "Legends" books. The cover art was incredible. I wanted to read them (and tried, but my 8 year old brain just couldn't grasp a single freakin thing that was said) but I wanted to collect them, just for the cover art alone. "No." my mom said. No books if I won't read them. Well there were no books I liked. Nothing interested me. Movies did. Shows did. Why can't books be like the movies and shows I like? Even comics in the 90's sucked. I wasn't able to get into comics until I went to a shop one day and found comics from the 60s - 80s and realized they were much better in years past. THAT IS KEY HERE.

Fast forward to now, and I would finally find the very books I wanted as a kid. Pulps. Shadow, Doc Savage, Spider, Conan, Tarzan, John Carter, Captain Future, Golden Amazon, and countless other detective, crime, western, and SF stories. All of them amazing, fun to read, and as American as it gets. If I found these things as a kid, I would have been reading a lot sooner in life. 

    I've been a writer at heart my whole life, and I know it. I dabble in art, and love drawing, and for a long time in school, I grew as an artist, until I stopped. I got back into it, but it was writing I fell back in love with. 

    These stories are very pulpy, and very me. I am proud to say that, and I am most gracious to any of you that read this, and them (or just them).