Name: Damien

Age: 28 (as of mid 2011)

Location: South-central Wisconsin

Writing Since: 2001

Preferred Topics: Fantasy and science fiction of nearly any flavour, with an emphasis in dark, urban crossovers.

Inspirations: Personalities and style by Tanith Lee, worlds by H.P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, creatures by John Carpenter and Ridley Scott.

Completed: Ten novel-length works, a couple dozen shorter stories and works-in-progress.

Published: Nothing yet, but currently putting sincere work into changing that.

Thanks for giving my page a visit. Currently I am a late-twenties, occasionally gender-ambiguous writer, illustrator and costume designer living in the small college town of Whitewater, Wisconsin. I specialize in strong, emotional character-driven stories set in worlds rich with the unsettling and macabre. Otherwise my time is spent pretending I can keep the apartment tolerably functional, jumping and climbing on rocks like a useless twit while my significant other conducts work of actual importance (she's a geologist), playing with reptiles, or entertaining the spoiled whims of the yowling bundle of fur that is effectively our daughter.

Feel free to read whatever and drop a comment. Positive, negative, it doesn't matter and it won't be any worse than the growing pile of rejections I get from the various agencies I'm pitching myself to.