unheard prophet/ronin DJ/amateur badass
Ever since I was a young boy, people have loved the sound of my voice. I figure in this life ya can either get busy talkin', or ya can get busy dyin'.
I've done a lot of things, crammed a great deal of experience into my twenty-five years. Some were good, some were bad. Had just about every crappy job you can get--I've worked in video rental, tech support, door-to-door sales, insurance, pizza delivery (for about three hours), and even promoted tobacco products at the Texas Motor Speedway. I've been a valet, a DJ, a bartender and a bouncer. Buy me a drink and I'll tell you a story. That's the one thing I've always been--a storyteller.
Now I work in a bookstore. It's nice. The money isn't great and the work is tedious, but no one's trying to stab me and I get to talk about books all day. And it affords me time and opportunity to do what I really love: write.
My short stories have appeared in a few local rags and defunct lit mags, also on the pages of Thuglit.com and Humdingerzine.com. My story "A Bar Called Sue's" will also be appearing in the first Thuglit print anthology, on shelves next summer. I'm nearing completion of my first novel, entitled "Sweet Benny and the Sanchez Penitentiary Band." A rock band made up of ex-cons sets out on a quest to play at Austin City Limits, with a young wannabe journalist in tow. Along the way trouble, and hilarity, ensue. I hope to finish it this year. After that, I want to go back to grad school and get my MFA in creative writing, so I can teach somewhere while I write my books. And if I won a Pulitzer somewhere along the way, that'd be cool too.
I used to DJ under the name Liquid Prophet in New York, and gained some notoriety as a house party player in Austin under the name Doc Awesome; if you're lucky enough to have attended a Fort Awesome party, then you know what I'm talking about. I don't produce or remix my own tracks, but if you need someone to keep your party hype, drop Doc a line-- phat beats at an affordable price.
If I'm not writing, spinning or dancing, I'm probably drinking. Try to keep up. As my professor once told me, "An author is just a device for turning liquor into literature."
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