I reside in the madness called Los Angeles, and I've been writing for awhile, with fiction published in Easyriders, BIKER, Caffeine, and Skrev-Press. I live for the absurd and surreal, so if this floats your reading boat, come aboard.
For those of you unfamilair with Caffeine, it was a coffee house poetry/fiction/art/friction mag that lit up the front and backburners in Los Angeles not so long ago. The publisher, Rob Cohen, is bringing it back to life on-line this fall, at www.caffeinemagazine.org, and Rob is co-author of Etiquette For Outlaws, and Why We Rule.
Skrev-Press (www.skrev-press.com) is a small publishing house based overseas, in Wales. Daithidh MacEochaidh puts it out with a busted rev limiter, lemme tell ya. Daithidh is a poet and fine fiction author is his own right, well known in the short-fiction circles of Europe.
His primary vehicle for short fiction is Texts' Bones. "Abracadabra" was recently published in the Summer 2007 edition, something I'm quite excited about. There are some excellent European writers featured in this publication, and Daithidh is revising his website to include purchase and subscription options to several of his publications. Keep an eye out for it at www.skrev-press.com
FICTION IN THE BLOG A few of the pieces featured here have been published in Caffeine and Skrev-Press (overseas, in Wales). A couple are unpublished, put up for fun and frolic. I've finished two novellas and am currently shopping them.
I've also dabbled with a few screenplays, one of which has been optioned. An interesting process, lemme tell ya. It's taken some time, but the ball is rolling with a couple of scripts. It's a very different kind of writing, but once it makes sense, the presensation of eneregy becomes a very fun process.
Wanda Webster, from writementor.com, really helped me get my ideas tuned up well beyond anything I could have done on my own. She's someone in Hollywood who shoots straight and has the credentials to back up her script analysis services.
My writing has been greatly influenced by Charles Bukowski, Henry Miller, Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, and a guy named J.J. Solari who used to be an original Mouseketeer. He can scorch a page, and chances are you've never heard of him outside the biker world. Well worth seeking out...
For now, the focus in on strange fiction of the surreal sort. It's not exactly erotica, nor is it purient. Somewhere in between lewd, funny and blunt probably paints the picture...
