David Soubly

Email: shonmoni@mich.com

I've been writing all kinds of stuff since I was about 12. Most of it has been in the loosely-defined categories of fantasy, beast-fable and the like. During college, I branched into poetry and more mainstream short stories, coming away with both the Sandrene Schutt and Eerdmans awards for composition and English at Hope College. Since that time, I've been working full-time at Ford in its IT operations, writing whenever I have a spare moment -- lunch, in the middle of the night, first thing in the morning, stopped at train crossings, waiting in the doctor's office, etc.

I live the usual nondescript life that puts you completely at odds with the stories you hear of the more colorful and legendary folk in this business. I have the usual assortment of weird habits and enough of an oddball tilted view of the world to believe that I, like you, have things to say that will change how people see things. And I have just enough brass to insist that you read them.

Lately, fiction has gravitated toward longer pieces, mostly geared at middle-to-older-aged children and centered around holiday themes. Most recently, my life was taken over by my first novel (well, second, but the first one was junk), which I just completed around the time we were trying to figure out who'd finally get to run the country.

That done and aging, I'm off on a new one, to keep myself from going insane climbing the publishing mountain.

I have 2 ms available for those ready to risk it: One is a for-older-children story of some 35,000 words, the other an adult contemporary/fantasy novel of 185,000.

Interests: Music / piano improvisation and recording, computers / web authoring, reading anything I can (lots of nonfic as well), exercise, and (unfortunately?) food.

Published writer: No

Freelance: No