I write stories, I write songs, and lately I've been turning the stories into little films. Turns out it's all the same job — you start with what you've got and see where the thread leads.
I write across genres — science fiction, time travel, paranormal, and the occasional story for kids who like things a little strange. Most of what I write started life as a short story, which is probably why so many of them keep wanting to become something else — a novel, an episode, a small obsession.
1947, a small Washington town, and a windmill that's been keeping a secret since 1910.
Stories that blur the line between the everyday and the paranormal. No ghosts or vampires — just the ordinary turning extraordinary.
I still don't write the same kind of thing twice on purpose. Rock, jazz, classical, world fusion — whatever the piece asked for. These days it's mostly just me and a piano, but the back catalog goes a lot of places.
↑ Real cover art, real tracks — this pulls straight from Spotify, so it updates itself the day something new goes up.
A while back I started taking my own short stories — the paranormal ones, the strange ones, the ones that always felt like they wanted a soundtrack — and turning them into short videos. Same stories, now with pictures and music too.
I've been doing some version of this — building things, writing things, scoring things — for most of my life. A short, honest version of how that happened:
Built my first rocket ships out of my parents' old washing machines. They did not fly. I kept trying anyway.
Invented the dual joystick port for Commodore, then wrote TalkTools, an audio-synthesis suite for the Amiga.
Founded Time Pilot, an interactive gaming magazine, back before there was much of a web to be "pre-" of.
Somewhere in the middle of all that I started writing songs and short stories, and I still haven't stopped either one.
Nominated for a Hollywood Music in Media Award, and a finalist in the International Songwriting Contest — nice to hear, better to keep working.
Whether it's about a book, a licensing question, or you just want to say the story got to you — I read all of these myself.