77sunset's profile

I’ve been bouncing all over the place for the last 40 years or so since I got beat up at the Democratic Convention in ‘68, watched my friends get mowed down at Kent State in ‘70 and fried my brain at all the festivals I went to after that. Joined the Coast Guard, got straight, went to school, got a degree and have been married to the same woman for the last 25 years with three grown kids who keep coming back home. Had a streak of more than 500 magazine and newspaper articles years back and now I’m concentrating on writing fiction. I enjoy the interplay between reader and writer, i.e., the reader creates the story even more than the writer could ever imagine. Have written five books and hope they will be published someday. Well, one has b…

I’ve been bouncing all over the place for the last 40 years or so since I got beat up at the Democratic Convention in ‘68, watched my friends get mowed down at Kent State in ‘70 and fried my brain at all the festivals I went to after that. Joined the Coast Guard, got straight, went to school, got a degree and have been married to the same woman for the last 25 years with three grown kids who keep coming back home. Had a streak of more than 500 magazine and newspaper articles years back and now I’m concentrating on writing fiction. I enjoy the interplay between reader and writer, i.e., the reader creates the story even more than the writer could ever imagine. Have written five books and hope they will be published someday. Well, one has been actually and is on Amazon.com (“Real Planets, Sam Burton & the Alien Reality TV Show”). I thought the publisher was for real but it turned out to be a free vanity press of sorts. If I don’t get more stuff published or find an agent I’ll do it myself and sell copies at flea markets. My goal in life is to open a roadside attraction in my old age where I can write and showcase my button collection (I have more than 10,000 political, gag, advertising, etc.), while my wife bakes bread and makes jams and jellies to sell at the snack counter (which is what she wants to do). Who knows what will happen? I could sell a million copies and wind up living in New Orleans. Time will tell. All you need is love, John