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I'll start by telling you a little bit about myself. I'm a twenty four year old with a degree in Psychology and no place where I live to use it. I've always enjoyed writing, and write short stories and dialogues for fun in my free time. I'm a southern grown Yankee from the misty northwest. A man of stentorian mind and minute body, I am cursed by the spirits of the Osceola and filled with the spirits of Austin Nichols.

I work primarily from home due to a number of long-term illnesses. None of them are fatal... Well, not counting the cancer anyway. 

In any case I work as a copy-writer; putting together mission statements for businesses, and writing up all the information they present on their websites. You didn't think they actually wrote that stuff for themselves, did you?

Copy-writing also includes writing instruction manuals for products, coming up with advertisements (either online or printed), and presenting informative or instructive articles on just about any topic you can name. I've got about 800 contract credits under my belt so far, but when you copywrite, you don't get to have you name put on the work once it's been sold. To that end, I'm still fairly unknown, though I have several short stories being printed this upcoming August in Alienskin and Mindflights Magazine. Check them out online. http://www.alienskinmag.com/flash11.htm.

At present the cancer is in remission and I'm recovering from treatment, so I'm not working all that hard, just enough to float by. The rest of my time I'm working on creative writing. I tend to cross genres quite a bit, suspense, horror, fantasy, historical fiction, etc. Anything that's fun to write and fun to read. I've started almost half a dozen novels but haven't finished any of them, typically due to a lack of available free time or research materials. People don't realize just how much research goes into writing a novel, things as simple as geography become a huge issue. In essence you've got to try to recreate the world we live in while putting your own spin on things.

I have high hopes for a novel I'm currently working on which follows several prominent historical figures in the days prior to and following the Battle of Agincourt. Think the Da' Vinci Code with more of an infernal influence. Well, contact me to chat if you like. I've got to get back to work.

For anyone curious about my other work, I have a blog at a new address.

http://jarn84.blogspot.com