Hello everyone. This is my first post here on my author website. Be sure to head to the comments below and say hi.

Thought I’d talk a bit about my author photo (above). Took this one in our basement. I tend to do most of my writing (and schooling) from the basement. I have a desk setup down here — yes, I’m in the basement now.

It’s a large unfinished basement so there’s plenty of room to get up and stretch around. We have a home gym we’ve been slowly putting together behind me, you can see a few pieces of equipment behind my large, two-sided whiteboard which is great for writing. Over my right shoulder is a small living space with a sectional couch and tv with all our old retro video gaming consoles hooked up to it.

I also film most of my videos from down here. The dance ones I do way off in the corner behind me, for example. And I’ve made a few videos with me sitting on the couch, which is fun and I think they turn out nice. I’ll post one of those to YouTube soon.

Speaking of YouTube… be sure to head over to my channel and subscribe for a mixture of content. I’ll be posting some author interviews, me blabbing about different things, book trailers, and of course the dance videos. I’ve also turned on the Community, so we can all make posts to the Community and leave comments.

Last but not least, the framed movie poster over my right shoulder in the photo is from the Swedish mini-series adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. His books are some of my favorites. When I went to buy a movie poster, I wanted one that emphasized his character Lisbeth Salander. But most didn’t. I eventually found this one which is the Greek movie poster. In case you didn’t know, different countries will often have very different movie posters and cover art — what marketing works in America won’t work in Japan and so on. This movie poster is a simple photo of Lisbeth leaning against a concrete wall. It’s very noir and nice.

Keep writing. And reading. 📖