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Welcome to my web home! I am many things offline, but online I am primarily a writer and a blogger. My blog is Debuts & Reviews. If you came here for the blog, click the D&R logo.

I write both nonfiction and fiction. I first became interested in writing after reading T. H. White’s The Once and Future King about a dozen times. Three novels later (including a practice novel), and I’m still at it.

In the meantime, I made a few thousand doing work-for-hire freelance nonfiction pieces–mostly humorous pieces for an outfit called Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. It’s not the most bragworthy writing credit, but I can balance it–at least partially–by having also written for STRINGS magazine, the very proper magazine serving musicians who play the sort of stringed musical instruments you’d find in a string quartet. In addition to having also worked as a technical writer and editor, I’ve run a popular blog called Fantasy Debut since June of 2007. I moved here in October of 2009, and renamed my blog to Debuts & Reviews.

I am a certified Microsoft Office expert. Under the “articles” section above, you can find two articles from my MS Word for the Writer series, which is a series of articles on Microsoft Word, tailored for a novelist. I have seven or eight articles in the series , and I plan to add them all here.

I have also served time in the military, worked in a factory, ran a flightline tool crib, and coded in C++. My family and work claims most of my time nowadays, but it’s amazing how fast you can write a novel when you devote time to it every week, without fail. From time to time, I plink on the piano, scratch on a violin or indulge in a true medieval hobby–calligraphy.

To the left, you can find other places I am found on the web, plus several interviews and my favorite authors.

As I add things here, I’ll put notifications in my blog.

Thanks for stopping by!

- tia