Imprimatur
"When I first saw the Library, my tongue was stricken in my mouth. Those thousands of manuscripts pressed down upon me with such weight that the ability to form words fled from my head. I was like a child, a clean slate waiting to be blessed with the script of God. How could this be? How could so many texts -- such a profusion of scrolls and pamphlets and folios -- how could so many misfit books have been written? There was no imprimatur from His Holiness for these words. The Heretical Library was meant to contain the few existent copies of those texts which threatened the Word and the Light and yet here was an entire church filled to the high clerestory windows with bookshelves, each shelf groaning and weeping under the weight of the tomes piled across its back. As I was faced with the enormity of my task, my faith wavered for an instant. Was my task of cataloguing the bizarre, the heretic, the foreign and alien too profound to be accomplished by one man in his lifetime or even the lifetime of a hundred men? Had Babel scattered us all so far that we could never find our way back?"
(from the private journal of Cardinal Pietro Della Ambruzia, entry dated January 13th, 1513)
writing
This is a reasonably comprehensive list of my published work, both virtual and physical.
THE MISFIT LIBRARY
I am Nine of Thirteen, one of the members of the Misfit Library, a writing collective which puts out a quarterly journal of our respective work. We are scattered across the globe and determined to change the face of the planet one story at a time. The link above will take you to Misfit Central where you can acquire copies of the journal as well as read exclusive online material.
SYMBOLIC
I wrote a column for OPi8.com's Transmit blogs: journals of the new dark underground. SYMBOLIC tracked the novel I was working on, referencing the process and the research materials which mad up the backbone of the work. In addition, SYMBOLIC busied itself with ruminations and considerations on the nature of language and communication. And a wee bit of mythology. The first 100 entries of SYMBOLIC can be found here on this site as well as at OPi8.com.
LITERARY REPRESENTATION
I am represented by Scribe Agency as my literary agents. Please contact these gentleman if you have any queries about my work.