Introducing myself

I have been looking for a writing platform for awhile now; I write on a number of subjects—both fiction and non-fiction—and nothing seemed to fit. A good friend of mine, who's been on PeakD for quite awhile suggested I try the platform. I won't lie, figuring out the keys and keychains was a bit new to me, but now that I am finally on the platform, I thought I'd introduce myself.

I think of myself, more and more, as a humanist in our ever more mechanical society. I believe in human values—and the value of humans—as taught in the great classics of our own and other civilizations.

I'm interested in a lot of different things—history, philosophy, religion, the current (sad) state of the world, martial arts, classic films. My reading is equally broad—I've switched from Philip K. Dick and Kafka last week to Cervantes, Solzhenitsyn, and Donald Hamilton this week.

I'm a writer; I've finished three novels which I have been slow to publish because of the current market, but I'm getting close. My novels are (ostensibly) detective fiction, but in a very nightmarish, possibly unreal world—Raymond Chandler in a PKD world, I sometimes say. The people who have read them so far have said good things, so I hope they'll spread by word of mouth. I've got a number of other works in various stages of progress, and need to make more time to write fiction—I hope PeakD will be a good place for that.

I'm also interested in writing about ideas; I tend to see connections among a wide range of historical phenomena and intellectual trends, and trying to tie things together, to make some sense of the world we find ourselves in, is a pretty compelling endeavor for me.

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I have no idea what Splinterlands is. I have only the vaguest notion of what Crypto is. I'm ok with both those gaps in my education.

I'm looking forward to finding my way around on a new platform, and, hopefully, engaging in some interesting and substantive conversations.