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About Me

Hi, I'm Daniel Homan. How ya doing? Good? Good. My first novel, Queen of Hearts, will be published by Wildside Press Spring 2008. Queen of Hearts is a fantastical riff on Saddam Hussein, Iraq, and the current civil war.Currently, I am represented by Eben Weiss of the Ralph Vicinanza literary agency.In addition to my fantasy novels, I have written "The Israeli Trail," based on my travels with Israelis in South America, and "Cape Town Dreams," a novel based on my time in South Africa.My story, "Mayonnaise's Last Day," will appear in the fall issue of Crab Creek Review. Check it out. You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

My Interests

music, writing, soccer, taoism, song writing, reading, videogames, soccer raquetball, playing sweet keyboard, idealistic rants, optimistic ballads, depressing novels.

I'd like to meet:

Any writers?Anyone who loves and wants to go to Spiderhouse, my beloved new coffee shop. Soccer players, musicians (check out my music on www.myspace/thinkingfrog or www.macjams/artist/thinkingfrogThose who can do a good meatwad impression.Those who enjoy drinking cheap wine. People with icy hearts, people with warm hearts. Those who refuse to believe that tyranny has prevailed.***Potential Friends note: If you'd like to be my friend, please write me a short, personal note (with something human, like, "I like Orson Scott Card too") so I know you're not a machine, and use my last name, "Homan." That'll fix those damned dirty machines!

Music:

cake, rilo kiley, U2, bob dylan, beatles, miles davis, george shearing, red hot chili peppers, the Amelie sound track, modest mouse, smoking popes, queen, rolling stones, nico, pearl jam, thinkingfrog, the shins, David Homan, peanuts music (especially Christmas Time is Here and Skating), Beach House, David Homan

Movies:

American Beauty, Kaufman movies (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters and other Woody Allen movies lately, Shawshank Redemption, The Secret of Nymn, Total Recall, Star Wars, No Escape, Vertigo

Television:

curb your enthusiasm, the simpsons, south park, family guy, shrubs.

Books:

Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse V, in fact, most Vonnegut, Graham Greene--Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, Brighton Rock, Asimov--Foundation Series, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Paul Auster--Mr. Vertigo, the New York Trilogy, Hemingway short stories, the tao of poo, flowers for algernon, the Israeli Trail, Brownshoe, Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game, Invisible Man, Brave New World, 1984, The Left Hand of Darkness, David Eddings, Piers Anthony, Joe Haldeman, Jeff VAnderMeer, oh tons, recommend some!

Heroes:

the stay puff marshmallow man, because he never stopped believing.

My Blog

Epitaphs

Epitaphs There were glowing blue butterflies in his dreams who told him to go to the graveyard, he explained in the darkness. His wife turned on the lamp, wiping her eyes. He knew she'd have to wash h...
Posted by Danny on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:19:00 PST

white dog in the rain

So, I was driving on I95 from San Marcos tonight and it was raining, hard enough that red break lights were blurry, and I was thinking about getting home to watch the state of the union, when I saw a ...
Posted by Danny on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:55:00 PST

frog pond

(I wrote this awhile ago, but thinking of that dog made me think of my dog Becket, who died when I was in high school, which then made me think of my house in florida where this frog pond is, and a se...
Posted by Danny on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:58:00 PST

a short short story

To End a Relationship They went to a quiet, out of the way place where she would end it. It was a simple break-up, really. She had planned to tell him over dinner but the conversation was forced when ...
Posted by Danny on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 08:18:00 PST