I have been writing for 38 years. I have published ten books, by myself or through small presses. I have published 240 pamphlets, chapbooks, fliers, and four-page sheets. Since March 18, 2000 I have published 200 novels on the worldwide web, plus six I held in abeyance, at The Daily Bugle, roman-feuilleton.com, and The Daily Bulletin. I respond to reader comment in the books. The books are thus both (1) written, and published, in real time, and (2) interactive, in that I think about what the reader has to say and change what I am doing if I think what the reader said makes sense.

How did being a Florida cracker affect what I do? I was an enlisted man in the service. I worked as a laborer for many years. In college, I majored in dirt archeology, and dug up dead Indians.

I work as a technical writer when I can get that kind of work.

I just completed an assignment where I wrote three training courses for the unemployed on an economic-stimulus-package trickle-down grant. Now I am unemployed. The savings from my last job are like a grant.

Now I have time to finish my researches. As a participant-observer of my own praxis. Analyzing my own body of work. Like doing vivisection on yourself. Without an anesthetic.

Live, no safety net.

No overdubbing later, in the studio.

We're streaming live. Hence the organization by day.

It's exciting.

Yesterday I thought I was writing GULF COAST STORIES. Today the book veered off in a new direction. It turned into FLORIDA WRITER: A PI NOVEL.