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Creative Writing
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Please see this author Website for more details:
Write in the Thick of Things
Fiction
Novels
- All Plucked Up: Book Two of the Silverville Saga, the sequel in the paranormal comedy-adventure series, and co-written with wife Kym O'Connell-Todd, released in 2012 by Raspberry Creek Books. Nominated for the 2012 Colorado Book Award.
- Strange Attractors, an SF novel, Write in the Thick Press, 2012. Also nominated for the 2012 Colorado Book Award in the genre category.
- The Silverville Swindle, an award-winning comedy noir novel, co-written with wife Kym O'Connell-Todd, Ghost Road Press, 2006.
Reissued as a commemorative hardback, Fall 2009.
The Silverville Swindle was nominated for the Colorado Blue Spruce Book Award for 2008.
The Silverville Swindle was selected as the 2006 One Book/One Valley reading and was placed on the recommended reading list at the Library of Congress by the Washington, D.C., Center for the Book.
To be re-released in 2013 under the title Little Greed Men: Book One of the Silverville Saga by Raspberry Creek Books.
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 - All Plucked Up cover
 - Strange Attractors cover
 - Silverville I cover
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Poetry
Books
Anthologies
- Three poems appear in the award-winning anthology of western poets, Open Range: Poetry of the Reimagined West, edited by W.C. Jameson and Laurie Wagner Buyer, Ghost Road Press, 2007.
- Two poems appeared in Ghost Road Press's award-winning fiction and poetry anthology, Open Windows, 2006.
- Geography of Hope, an anthology featuring six of my poems, published in 1998.
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Screenplays
- Little Greed Men, the screenplay adaptation, co-written with Kym. We've taken several meetings with an independent film production company as well as a fairly well known producer, but no deal yet.
- Dough Baby, an original screenplay, co-written with wife Kym, currently under consideration.
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Blogs
Visit the Write in the Thick of Things Blog.
Performance
- I've performed poetry at scores of readings and events, including libraries, public schools, universities, conferences, and poetry festivals across the Rocky Mountain region and East Coast as well as in Berlin, Germany.
- I’ve performed over twenty readings, with my wife, Kym, for our novel, The Silverville Swindle, at libraries, book clubs, and writing conferences.
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Under Development
- The Magicke Outhouse: Book Three of the Silverville Saga, is due out at the end of 2013, with Raspberry Creek Books.
- Softy, Soothering Ways, a nonfiction book about my experience growing up in a family mortuary business, currently under consideration with a small press.
- Book Four of the Silverville Saga is underway, through an option with Raspberry Creek Books to publish in 2015.
- Dreaming in Silence, a second SF novel, is in outline form.
- A screenplay adaptation of Strange Attractors, is underway.
Journalism
- I have written dozens of features and news stories, ranging from local through regional markets such as The Denver Post and Colorado Business Journal, and on into international markets.
- Kym and I edited and published a quarterly magazine in the mid '90s called Connecting with Colorado, a publication that mixed romancing the West with the realities of living in the New West.
- We also served as co-editors and part owners of a weekly newspaper called The Gunnison Valley Telegraph in the mid 90s.
- The most interesting project I was involved in was researching and co-writing articles with Kym about the Teton Sioux Treaty Council's bid for recognition as a sovereign nation before the World Court in the Hague, Netherlands. Our coverage was picked up by major papers across Europe -- although our own stateside AP didn't seem interested.
- Guest Entertainment and Sports editor for Lycos's Top News project in the mid 1990s.
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