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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Salutations!  I feel that a brief introduction is necessary to let you, the prospective reader, know where I came from and where I'm coming from as a writer.  So to start, I grew up in poverty-stricken, unincorporated communities of south Texas known as colonias.  I say this not to invite sympathy or to make any pretense that my life was more difficult and interesting than it actually was; I and my siblings enjoyed a fairly comfortable life as things go. Nevertheless, I distinctly remember reaching such milestones as phone service (a party line), paved roads, indoor plumbing being installed, and finally moving into a house that wasn't directly adjacent to agricultural fields regularly strafed by crop dusters, so I won't pretend that I'm nostalgic for those days like it was a "Little House on the Prairie" idyllic existence.  My first avenue of escape from the limiting realities of my existence, besides my own imagination, was science fiction.  Besides television programs such as "Land of the Lost," "Star Trek," and "Battlestar Galactica" (for which my ardor was so great that I actually drew my own "Battlestar Pegasus" comic book and created my own Viper models out of popsicle sticks), I engrossed myself in the works of authors such as Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Kurt Vonnegut, H.G. Wells, and Jules Verne, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and J.R.R. Tolkien.  Later, music (especially rock music of the psychedelic variety) became rather an obsession, and music and fantastic fiction continue to be my great loves in life. Although sci-fi always had an escapist element, I also felt that the best science fiction held a mirror (or magnifying glass, really) up to reality, as all great art should.  In my writing I strive to hold up that magnifying glass. And though I wandered far from my Rio Grande Valley roots in various pursuits (education, entertainment, search for new experiences, enlightenment, stardom) I suppose it was inevitable that my paths and writing would return me, full-circle fashion, to my "launching pad." I currently reside, write, maintain an increasingly unwieldy collection of LPs and CDs, and practice law in south Texas.  

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