Covering the 2005 Spoleto Festival -- and setting the record for most events attended in a single day. (Yolanda James photo)

Professional writers and editors tend to fall into one of several categories, many of them unpleasant.

I sprawl all over those lines.

So yes, I’m a writer and an editor with the skills you’d expect from a 20-year newspaper career, but I love writing fiction and telling stories in any format that requires words. That makes me a hybrid, but think “greater than the sum of its parts” here, cowboy.

Take a look around, and please  let me know if you see something you like.

Journalism
What I can do, but more importantly, what I’ve done.

Blogging
Blogging as a separate genre feels strangely obsolete now, although the medium we know as blogging is with us for the long haul… as a subset of what gets called “social media” these days. I think it all falls under the heading of “networked media,” and I think it demands that we reconsider all sorts of rules of effective/interesting communication.

Short stories
Those of you who ask, “Do you have a copy of the story you published back in…” should go here. I’ve got links to vendors and free electronic copies via the Xark Fiction Project.

The Key To Darbas
This sci-fi/fantasy hybrid is my first novel: written in 2003, almost published in 2005, re-written in 2008. And I’m giving away free e-books and PDF downloads while I build the book’s home on the Web.

Scripts
After hitting the brick wall of Hollywood indifference to my first feature-length scripts, I discovered something sweet: when I write  good short scripts, my talented friends produce them.