Hello there!
My name is Steve Walsh, a writer and (somewhat passable) cartoonist.
On the front page of my home site, you can find my blog, which includes notifications of updates for my current projects, in addition to general posts about various topics that may-or-may-not be related to anything at all.
The menu navigation bar at the top of the site links to my current works, my short stories, and the sort of projects that I enjoy. With regards to the latter, if you or your group has a project that you think my contributions would make better, please drop me an email. I’ll check it out and see if we’re on the same page creatively and otherwise.
To make things easier, you can keep up with me and my blog (which includes updates about all my projects) via the RSS and Twitter feeds at the right side of this page.
I hope you enjoy your stay, and please drop me a line if you have questions, concerns, or comments (in addition to those available in my blog).
A Little About ME
I wrote my first stories back in grade school, almost completely by accident.
My parents and teachers had always noted that I had an (almost too) active imagination, that sometimes ran away with me. However, that imagination was fed mostly by books and cartoons (strangely, my parents didn’t buy me comics, until I was in High School, and even then it was only the Star Trek TNG single issues). I’d sit and read the trade paperbacks of my favorite TV series, or pour through the entire cartoon anthology section of the library (which, conveniently, was 2 blocks from our house). A little bit later, I started drawing (poor quality) versions of Odie and other characters I found in “cartooning” books.
In 7th grade, we had an English teacher who was sort of an odd duck. One of her projects was to “write down a dream we had”. Mind you, this was not the “I want to be an astronaut” flavor of dream, but rather the “I was having a party in a giant hotdog-shaped hotel with Sting and Lady GaGa” variety. What one was supposed to do if one doesn’t remember their dreams very often was not a detail she spent any time elaborating.
So, I started making something up. By the end of page one (done on my C-64) , it was apparent that not only was one page not going to be enough, but there was no way I’d have this done by the due date the next day. I presented the one page to the teacher, and said, “I can hand this in, but it’s not done yet.” She read it and said that I should take as much time as I needed to finish, and hand it in when it was done. It was “done” about 5 weeks later, and she happily took it then and gave me an “A”. She must have seen something in that single, dot-matrix printer page.
Since then I’ve been writing off and on for the better part of 15 years as I tried other ventures. Sometimes when you’ve got what others consider to be “above average” capacity for something, your life won’t let you forget about it. Even though there’s been times when I haven’t written fiction for years at a time, I’ve inevitably found myself writing documentation, re-writing emails for my bosses (and their bosses, and their bosses’ bosses) due to my knack for painting pictures with words, and drawing people into the text (not my words).
In any event, I’ve accumulated a number of what I consider to be good, interesting stories and promising, fascinating ideas over those years, and this site will be where I develop and publish them.
Stay tuned, good readers!