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About Grouch
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Update (Jan. 26, 2008): Three months ago, on a lark, I entered the Amazon Breakthrough Novel competition. To my surprise, I was selected as a semi-finalist. Amazon has posted excerpts from the novels in the competition and has opened it up for customers to read, review and rate the submissions (bear in mind, you'll only see a fraction of a slice of my novel). If you're so inclined, you can find the Amazon page for my novel Dubble by clicking here:
Dubble by David Abrams
To read the excerpt, you'll have to download it from Amazon (free of charge). You'll notice that the excerpt for Dubble ends abruptly (a possible technical glitch). At the risk of violating the rules of the game, here is the rest of that final paragraph:
It was a defining moment. Hollywood has always been and will always be filled with them. Defining moments. In fact, if I were to someday write my autobiography, I would start it with Chapter One: In Which I am Discovered.
Fate, I tell ya. Of course, I still think my name had a lot to do with it.
Though you're certainly under no obligation to do so, I send my thanks in advance if you want to take the time to read and honestly rate/review the beginning paragraphs of Dubble. Oh, and one other incentive: When you read excerpts from the semifinalists and post reviews, you'll be in the running to win a prize package (including an Amazon Kindle, a $2,000 Amazon.com gift certificate, and an HP photo printer).
And now, on with the rest of my biography...
Once upon a time, on a dark and stormy night, I was born. My father's family name being Abrams, and my christian name David....Call me Grouch.
I spent my youth in Wyoming (raised in the shadow of the Tetons), then met the woman of my dreams, married, settled down and raised a lovely family. Along the way, I earned a B.A. in English from the University of Oregon. For a couple of years, I was a reporter for newspapers in Montana. In 1988, I joined the Army as a journalist. This has taken me to such far-flung exotic places as Japan, Thailand, the Comoros Islands and El Paso, Texas. In my spare, non-epinion moments, I write fiction. My work has been published in Esquire, Glimmer Train Stories, The Readerville Journal, Greensboro Review and Fish Stories, among others. An essay on fishing in Alaska appears in Alaska Passages, published by Sasquatch Books. One of my short stories was listed as one of the "100 Other Distinguished Stories of 1998" in the anthology The Best American Short Stories, 1999 edited by Amy Tan.
Update (Jan. 25, 2002): Most of my new reviews of books and movies can now be found at Culture Dose.
Update (July 5, 2002): I recently had the chance to interview novelist Allen Morris Jones (Last Year's River). You can read that interview, published at Drexel Online Journal, by clicking here:
Beyond the Familiar — An interview with Allen Morris Jones.
Update (June 29, 2003): I won first place in the Anchorage Daily News' annual writing contest ("Open to the Public, Non-fiction" category) for my essay Ursus Arctos Horribilis. You can read it by clicking here:
Ursus Arctos Horribilis
Update (July 5, 2003): I recently had the chance to interview Terry Parssinen, author of The Oster Conspiracy (read my Epinions review of the book). You can read that interview by clicking here.
Updated (May 15, 2004): After 12 long years of off-again, on-again study at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, I finally earned my Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing. I'd like to publicly thank Frank Soos and Jo-Ann Mapson, both of them enthusiastic supporters of my work and efforts.
Updated (June 16, 2004): A poem of mine, On Becoming a Jesuit, took first place in the annual Anchorage Daily News contest.
I am now a war veteran, having served 11 months in Kuwait and Baghdad during Operation Iraq Freedom III. While deployed, I took a hiatus from reviewing.
Updated (April 1, 2007): AbeBooks.com recently included me in a feature about "Reading in Iraq." You can read all about it here
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