I like to write. I wish I had more time for it. I have been known to dabble in poetry, but most of my writing consists of sci-fi and fantasy full-length novels.

Here's a poem I wrote, I Watch as You Sleep. I composed most of it in my head while sitting in class one day and quickly wrote it down when I got home that evening. It was inspired by the fact that women always wonder why men like to watch them sleep. Go figure.

I have actually done a lot of novel writing. I wrote and completed a fantasy novel (you know, wizards, dragons, knights, the lot) way back when I was 14 and 15. After that I wrote half a sequel with the same characters and then quit that book. Then I began several other books none of which I finished either. Some were still the same setting (side stories about the pasts of the particular characters). Some were completely different ideas, one about the first manned trip to Mars, one a sci-fi story about the theft of the fastest space ship ever built, just stuff.

Then I wrote and actually completed another book for the second time. This one, White Sand, was about a small group of kids who get stranded on a desert island. I know, Lord of the Flies. I don't want to hear it. All of this writing happened while I was still in high school and I went all the way through college without writing another word.

And then, in the early months of 1998, I dug into and finished yet another book, which I believe to be far better than any of my past endeavours:

Here's the cover I designed for my last book: