I'm a straight, gay dog who has spent nearly ten years as an advertising copywriter for radio and television. This has left me with a debilitating work-related disability. I had always planned to try my hand at writing the Great Canadian Novel and several years ago decided to begin during a two-week vacation.

Day one I spent with my feet up searching for an idea. On day two I kept myself busy sitting beneath a tree, nibbling potato chips and scribbling plot points and back story onto a pad of yellow paper. Early on day three’s morning, I sat down at my word processor and began to write.

When I finished, I went back over my work cleaning up spelling and typos occasionally changing a word or phrase to something more elegant.

Finally, I read my story to Fizzgig, the grey Persian/Maine Coon mix who allows me to sublet part of the rooms I rent.

It took exactly sixty seconds to read.

Premature exposition! I know, but I’m working on it.

Interests
Reading and writing both prose & poetry, music appreciation, film criticism, hiking, camping and learning to speak feline.

Favorite Books
Turnabout (Thorne Smith), The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Robert A. Heinlein), Bug Jack Barron (Norman Spinrad), The Difference Engine (William Gibson & Bruce Sterling) The Doomsday Book (Connie Willis)

Favorite Authors
Prose: Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thorne Smith, Agatha Christie, Robert A. Heinlein, Connie Willis

Plays: William Shakespeare, J. M. Barrie, Howard Brighouse, Paddy Chayefsky

Poetry & Misc: Ogden Nash, Arthur Guiterman, Will Cuppy, Corey Ford

Favorite Movies
Two Tars - Laurel & Hardy (1928), Holiday - Cary Grant & Katherine Hepburn (1938), Kiss Them for Me - Cary Grant & Jayne Mansfield (1957), The Three Musketeers - Michael York & Raquel Welch (1973) Uncle Buck - John Candy (1989), Shakespeare in Love - Joseph Fiennes & Gwyneth Paltrow (1998), Kinky Boots- Joel Edgerton & Chiwetel Ejiofor (2005)

Favorite Music
Beatles, Rolling Stones, Neil Diamond, Wendy Carlos, Mike Oldfield, Rick Wakeman, Kim Carnes, Kitaro, Deuter, Cirque du Soleil