Look and Listen

Biography

A student of all things, Master of none… A questionable turn on a time-worn cliché, but fairly apt—a jack of many trades. Perhaps it began with the custom van built in the long-haired days of the early 70’s—an old school bus with an engine salvaged from the junk yard. Or with the dozens of motorcycles ridden, broken, repaired and ridden again. Eric has built furniture and guitars, he’s screen-printed t-shirts and created package design for bottled soap. He’s thrown newspapers and he’s written software for corporations large and small— for a time working from the wandering RV he and Sue called home. He does website design and he’s published motorcycle and RV travel articles. He earned a pilot’s license and he built and flew a gyro-copter over the cane-fields and beaches of Florida. He’s penned tunes and published Sci-Fi/Fantasy short stories and a first novel, Water Harvest, with Double Dragon Publishing. After more than three decades in south Florida, Eric and his lovely wife Susan moved to the Upstate region of South Carolina, where the nearby Appalachians beckon two-wheeled leisure. When cranky knees allow it, bicycling is a favored indulgence—more often, these days, on a recumbent. Motorcycling remains a passion, justified at least in part by instructing a course in motorcycle safety. He was likely a cat in a previous life, as there’s an undeniable affinity. He looks odd, and children wave and call him 'ski-man' as he troops past with his walking sticks. The truth is, Eric is still working out what it is that he’ll do—after he grows up.

Inspiration

I would say that the novel that first hooked me on science fiction was Frank Herberts' Dune. More recently I prefer the style of authors along the lines of George R.R. Martin. As for my own writing, I feel that activity tends to focus my thinking. Sometimes when I write out a detailed question in a technical field, my arrangement and focus on the detail answer the question for me.