Updated 12/13/2025

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This site has been dormant for a while, not because there hasn't been anything going on,

but because there's been a lot going on,

and not all of it has been readily shareable.

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They came last month, the printed and bound copies of the book I’ve been working on since 2017 or so—though it's actually been much longer than that, if you figure in all the years

of obsession, which led to the idea, which to

the need, which led to the daily reality of researching and writing a book for as long

as it took to get it out, and to get it right.

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As it came into shape, I felt this was going to

be my best work, but also that it would be a challenge to find a publisher. Not because it wouldn’t be good enough, but because it would be considered too much of several different things, and not enough of one single thing.

That confounds the marketers, and anyone in publishing today will tell you that’s who calls

the shots. And indeed, despite a killer pitch and the yeoman efforts of my agent, more than two dozen editors took a pass, not seeing

anything of conceivable commercial interest

in an era-spanning history that takes in urban

legend, two world wars, The Twilight Zone,

the Trump era, and popular culture in all

forms and manifestations, and that tells

the stories of a slew of fascinating figures

both famous and forgotten.

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So what's been printed is a limited edition—

very limited. It’s not for sale as of now, and I’m only sharing out a few copies because, hey, paper and ink are expensive. But it’s now copyrighted, assigned an ISBN number, and library-cataloged, making it accessible to OCLC and other online databases. Evidence of its existence will be out there, and my hope is

that it will become an underground legend, something people will want because they can’t find it. Maybe that’s just a movie I’m writing

in my head. But as I've been saying for some

time now, we’ll see what happens.

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One other thing I find it important to say.

I’ve seldom made a dime from my writing; 

if I cared about that, I’d have given it up long ago. Nor am I much concerned with public recognition, which is fleeting. Realizing a long-held vision is truly what creating is all about. If people try to tell you that your creation means less because it isn’t delivered by way of some established institution—record label, movie studio, publishing house—do yourself a favor

and don’t listen to those people. Chances are, they’ve never created anything.

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There will be pages here soon about the two books I've finished this past year—the big one, plus a much smaller project, another work of college history—but I need to reacquaint myself with website mechanics after a long time away.

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In the meantime, the New Work/News and Archives sections have been updated with

links to my public writings from the last couple

of years. I hope they prove worth your time,

and that you'll check back again.

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DM