Brian P. White
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Hiya!
I'm Brian. "Lex sent me." I met him in a game I like to use to create characters I may later add to my books, and he suggested I give this site a try.
I'm originally from City Terrace, California (basically East L.A. in the hills), but I moved around when my parents split up and THEN joined the U.S. Army. I've since retired after doing my twenty, two deployments, and my body saying, "Nope! We're DONE!" Now, I live in middle America, trying to do better than two self-published novels (and the other eight I'm editing AND all my other works-in-progress) while I go back to college to finish my degree.
Dizzy yet?
I grew up a latch-key kid subsisting on games, movies, and TV, so I ended up a slow reader, but when I hit the keyboard I can sometimes fly in my stories. I write like I watch or read: versatile. I used to want to be an actor before I learned my interests were more about creating than showcasing, per se. My biggest literary influences are Stephen King, MaryJanice Davidson, and Kirsten Beyer ... so, obviously, I like to explore spec fic and laugh it up, but I'm a sucker for a good love story. I write stories I want to see, and I want to see a lot happen that doesn't always fit into a genre (I like most, if not all). I tackle issues in my stories that--let's be frank--are nothing new yet always being touched in the hopes of creating that one piece that solves the problem (identity, prejudice, apathy, and the ever-unreliable pull of desire).
A lot of challenges for someone with highly-functioning autism, wouldn't you say? Yes, you read that right. I was diagnosed when I was six but wasn't told until I was twenty-seven. By then, I was married, with child, and in the Army (who doesn't have experts in this kind of thing in adults), so I had to learn how to get through (or use) it on my own. Constantly feeling detached from a world I experienced more through fiction than living yet always wanting to do more for and with it. That's me.
Sit down. Take a breath. I know it's disorienting. I'm here for you.
I want to reach other authors with whom I hope to share ideas of the business side of literature, being a writer and a business student who's read APE by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch and still has difficulty understanding and executing the marketing side of it all. Having to do it all alone with the firewall that is autism is tiresome, and I really need help to connect the dots. I hope to help as well with all I've learned about voice, character development, language, brevity (yes, I know, but believe it!), and life experiences through stories, travel, and near-constant culture shock.
My self-published works include The Death Doll and The Death Doll Exodus, both part of a series where survivors of a zombie pandemic discover a terrifying secret about their leader, who must prevent a mutiny before raiders kill her people. I've also posted things publicly like Penance (a narcotics cop obsessed with taking down a drug lord falls in love with a man with a connection to her prey), Temporary (romance about a divorced temp in a custody dispute who inherits his late grandmother's house, where an old flame still lives next door), and Jillary (TV series told in episode scripts about a girl born with uncanny knowledge who discovers its source and the people who will kill to keep it secret). I'll let you look those up if you want to; I don't want to just look like I'm advertising.
I hope to get to know many of you well.
Keep writing, and Live the Dream!
I'm Brian. "Lex sent me." I met him in a game I like to use to create characters I may later add to my books, and he suggested I give this site a try.
I'm originally from City Terrace, California (basically East L.A. in the hills), but I moved around when my parents split up and THEN joined the U.S. Army. I've since retired after doing my twenty, two deployments, and my body saying, "Nope! We're DONE!" Now, I live in middle America, trying to do better than two self-published novels (and the other eight I'm editing AND all my other works-in-progress) while I go back to college to finish my degree.
Dizzy yet?
I grew up a latch-key kid subsisting on games, movies, and TV, so I ended up a slow reader, but when I hit the keyboard I can sometimes fly in my stories. I write like I watch or read: versatile. I used to want to be an actor before I learned my interests were more about creating than showcasing, per se. My biggest literary influences are Stephen King, MaryJanice Davidson, and Kirsten Beyer ... so, obviously, I like to explore spec fic and laugh it up, but I'm a sucker for a good love story. I write stories I want to see, and I want to see a lot happen that doesn't always fit into a genre (I like most, if not all). I tackle issues in my stories that--let's be frank--are nothing new yet always being touched in the hopes of creating that one piece that solves the problem (identity, prejudice, apathy, and the ever-unreliable pull of desire).
A lot of challenges for someone with highly-functioning autism, wouldn't you say? Yes, you read that right. I was diagnosed when I was six but wasn't told until I was twenty-seven. By then, I was married, with child, and in the Army (who doesn't have experts in this kind of thing in adults), so I had to learn how to get through (or use) it on my own. Constantly feeling detached from a world I experienced more through fiction than living yet always wanting to do more for and with it. That's me.
Sit down. Take a breath. I know it's disorienting. I'm here for you.
I want to reach other authors with whom I hope to share ideas of the business side of literature, being a writer and a business student who's read APE by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch and still has difficulty understanding and executing the marketing side of it all. Having to do it all alone with the firewall that is autism is tiresome, and I really need help to connect the dots. I hope to help as well with all I've learned about voice, character development, language, brevity (yes, I know, but believe it!), and life experiences through stories, travel, and near-constant culture shock.
My self-published works include The Death Doll and The Death Doll Exodus, both part of a series where survivors of a zombie pandemic discover a terrifying secret about their leader, who must prevent a mutiny before raiders kill her people. I've also posted things publicly like Penance (a narcotics cop obsessed with taking down a drug lord falls in love with a man with a connection to her prey), Temporary (romance about a divorced temp in a custody dispute who inherits his late grandmother's house, where an old flame still lives next door), and Jillary (TV series told in episode scripts about a girl born with uncanny knowledge who discovers its source and the people who will kill to keep it secret). I'll let you look those up if you want to; I don't want to just look like I'm advertising.
I hope to get to know many of you well.
Keep writing, and Live the Dream!
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