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"Num" was born in the city of
Memphis, TN during the last few months of the seventies. Having been lovingly
raised by old TV shows such as Taxi, The Monkees, I Dream of
Jeanie, MacGyver and the A-Team he developed a quirky sense
of how this absurd world should work--there is humor in most everything,
and you can get out of any situation if you are just clever enough.
He learned to
read early on but never really pursued it as a hobby until, by chance; he
impulsively stole a book from a junior high school book fair, a juvenile
science fiction novel. Though the story itself has been forgotten, its impact
remained.
After a year or
two devoted to devouring any sort of science fiction, fantasy, pulp, action,
and comedy novel he could get his hands on, he decided his dream job would be
to sit around in his underwear while people untold miles away were entertained
by his words.
Fifteen years,
three nearly-finished novels, a few dozen shorts stories, a large steamer trunk
filled with beginnings, one failed NaNoWriMo attempt, one moderately successful
NaNo, entirely too many commas and impossibly long, convoluted, grammatically-incorrect
sentences... have all culminated in a casual--hopefully friendly--and
accessible writing style fraught with absurdity and occasionally an original
idea.
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