FYI 

I am a former journalist turned corporate communications professional and failed novelist, now comfortably retired in Brampton, Ontario, Canada with my cat, Walter. 

Years ago the publishing industry unanimously rejected my first science fiction/horror novel without a reading. Every literary agent in North America flicked it away like it was a piece of lint on his Ermenegildo Zegna suit. As a result, that novel and its successor, as well as future novels, will only be available on Kindle in deference to the publishers’ de facto cartel. Links to those Kindle postings are here on this site.

I have the necessary training for this: I hold undergraduate degrees in biology and science education and a college diploma in journalism, and as a former journalist I’m used to finding and checking out information for the sake of background. That’s important because I want to ensure that the underlying science as well as the locations, historical references and most of the crimes depicted in my stories are all real and accurately described; it’s the interpretations, situations and characters (with the exception of historical figures) that are all total and unabashed fiction. If readers have difficulty spotting the lines of demarcation, that’s the point. 

Amazon’s Kindle service deserves a big shout-out for making it possible for writers and readers everywhere to do an end-run around the traditional publishing industry. It’s good to be able to offer people stories at low cost through Kindle, where readers can (and should) root around to discover many authors whose goal is to create his or her best efforts and share them mainly just for the pure savage hell of it. In these relentlessly overpriced times, there is simply no longer a sane reason for working people to drop $40 on a hardcover novel. 

Please feel free to share your feedback including comments, insightful observations, wild praise, angry verbal abuse, sinister threats or anything else that bubbles up out of you, using the contact link on this site.

Story reviews should be posted directly to Kindle.

Thank you for visiting my website.

- David S.

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