David C. Webb

Email: davcwebb@aol.com

Home page: www.davidcwebb.com

David C. Webb moved to Mobile, Alabama in 1970 from his birth place of Miami, Florida at the age of two to find greener pastures, sweltering humidity, and the USS Alabama. Luckily, he found all three as he passed over Mobile Bay’s causeway that blustering summer day. He was reared by a military father and firm mother until the age of six at which time he entered into a premature right-of-passage into early adulthood. From this point, David grew up on the mean streets of Timberlane, a bustling West Mobile neighborhood littered with crazed kids, acres of untrodden green forest, wild animals of African decent, creek fiords of fresh water and raw sewage, baseball diamonds galore, ancient pecan orchards, massive dirt bunkers, rotten tree forts, and homemade skate boards. His book, Timberlane Dave (Wingspan Press, 2005) details healthy family dysfunctions, major physical catastrophes, and financial stresses that plagued his life between the ages of six and ten years old. His story is told in the form of short stories that chronicle his adventures in this rough and tumble terrain.

After tearing out the frame of his early childhood in Timberlane, he gradually learned his way through the Mobile County public school system. He made astronomical educational waves his freshman year in college by almost failing his first English class; something about the professor saying “you can’t write worth a flip.” Wedging his nose against a grindstone and a Webster’s Dictionary while consuming mass quantities of No-Dose, he fought the stigma of being a poor writer for many semesters. He finally broke loose of the funky grammatical shackles binding his creative spirit while writing 100-page case analyses for demanding Business School professors at Birmingham-Southern College in the early 1990’s. Though his days and nights were filled with the splendor of writing diatribes of analytical tripe on such mundane topics of statistical numeracy, business law precedents, financial ratios, and marketing strategies, he essentially came to an epiphany that maybe he could actually write other stuff as well. And he’s been struggling with this realization every since.

After a six-year college career, David received his Bachelor of Science degree from Birmingham-Southern College in 1992 with majors in Management, Marketing, and Finance. He lit a torch in the financial world for almost two decades by burning up the road & thousands of gallons of jet fuel traveling the country creating profitable business relationships that have helped forge a substantial resume of solid experience within established Fortune 500 companies. After the financial industry collapse in 2008, David decided to change careers altogether. He is now CFO of a regional demolition company in the southeast and enjoys his new administrative career immensely.

David resides with his wife, Blakeley, and sons, Charleston & Fincher, in Mobile, AL where he continues to be involved in various creative projects. In his spare time, he plans on completing a screenplay based on his first book Timberlane Dave, as well as another collection of short stories based on the same central character called Timberlane Dave, Perfectly Warped. He is also diligently working on a religious alternative future fiction novel entitled Sacrosanctity that is due out soon. He has an unusual yet entertaining web site: www.davidcwebb.com. Go there, visit, laugh, and navigate through his maze. I’m sure he will appreciate it immensely.

David’s book is available on major on-line bookstores like www.amazon.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, www.borders.com, and www.books-a-million.com. E-books are also available for your Kindle or I-pad.

Interests: Music, a cure for lethologica, astrophysics, phenomenology, alchemy, brewing,collecting musical instruments and loud equipment, competitive fishing, golf, writing, child rearing, Little Debbies, Conecuh Sausage, 2012, and UFOs.

Published writer: Yes

Freelance: Yes

Published works:

Fiction