Article Sample - Cross Movement

Yes. I would love to just write fiction for a living and be done with it. But in the real world of men, people have to eat and pay bills.I have been published in several different publications. The question that may logically come up is "Where exactly have you been published? What have you written?" Both good questions.The next few weeks will see the emergence of my personal writing portfolio. Today is an article I did on a very popular hip hop group called Cross Movement. This is right before their second CD emerged.The editors of this magazine always called me by an old email handle I used to used called Digiprez even though I asked them several...

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Justice Directive Preview - Part II

Yes, I realize that it's been a awhile but not to worry, there is definitely more material that will be posted on this blog because there is an awful lot of material that is being worked on. If you read the preceding posts you'll know that one of the projects that I'm currently shopping is called The Justice Directive (for specific details on just what that story is about, read Justice Directive Preview - Part I). Me and my good friend Paul Tucker, currently galavanting about in Japan, finished this submission earlier this year. You've seen the first part so now I figured it was time to unveil the rest. This second part takes you through...

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Sigh....

Sometimes, you just have to wonder... I have a job, my nine to five, which I don't like. Well...not the job but the people in it. Well...not the people (who are actually real cool) but just my boss. Anyone know what I'm talking about here? My boss happens to be younger than me and is probably one of the most dishonest, lying individuals around. That's how he got to the position he's at. So it's no lie when you hear the corporate world being talked about in that fashion. On top of that, these people are rewarded for their fake smiles and extreme booty kissing.  This sickens me. No character. I find working under him nearly unbearable and he knows I can't stand him. I have a feeling...well..without going into details, I know that I won't be there long. Now, what's the point of this...

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Who Am I?

Sometimes I'm a day late and a dollar short. Let me tell you a little about myself in terms of my writing experience. I've written for national publications, primarily music magazines. I have have credits with Release, 7 Ball, and Feed in addition to the now defunct Classic Entertainment Flash and Spectrum newspapers. I also used to be a staff writer at a local paper here in Toledo called the Toledo Journal. In reference to my fiction writing, specifically comics, I was published in a graphic novel anthology last year titled Ellium: Hybrid (since then, my buddy Jason has been picked up by Speakeasy Comics). There's an eight page short in there which I'll eventually post here. I also completed a prose story for that graphic novel last minute when the guy that was supposed to do it backed out....

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Justice Directive Preview - Part I

Well, I'm back from my excursion in Chicago at Wizard World 2005 and I learned quite a bit. One of the key things that I learned (which I already knew going into the con) was that as a writer, you have to have a package ready to show, not writing. Cons really aren't the place to pitch a story unless you have something done that editors can see. And this I had. I also employed a technique that I only got to use once, but once was enough. I had an editor over at an independent comic company looking at our material. He said he wanted to see some of it and I asked him to do me a favor. Then I took out one of my business cards and asked him to...

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Wizard World Chicago 2005

Yes. I'm taking the trip to Chicago so I can network with all the comic heads out there. Who am I kidding? I want a job man! Conventions are one of the places that as a writer, you have to work just so because on the whole, conventions are not a real good place to show anything unless it's finished work. So, you guessed it, I'm taking about three finished 8-10 page samples with me (well two at least. The other is just art). So, what does that look like you ask? I'll give you a sample. These are two pages from two projects I'm working on. One is Justice Directive, a story about a billionaire who forms a covert organization to prey on organized...

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A Place To Call Home

Thank you for coming to my blog. This is my new home for all of my writing endeavors and where you can see some of the material I'm currently working on. If you've stopped by here because you've received one of my cards, I hope you enjoy your stay here.Much of the material here will be a preview of my wo...

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