Geoffrey Craig Porter

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Writing || Information Technology
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"God made me for War"
"New way? What's this about a new way?"

I just spent the last 24 hours cloning and modifying a multiplayer wargame to suit my carnal desires, May 25th/26th, 2012.
It's called Geneva, and you can find it on Legions of Tercia.


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Zombie Flick
Comedy, Action, Zombies
By Geoffrey C Porter

Winter's Line
A Novel Part of the "W" Series
Comedy, Action, Romance, Fantasy, and Revenge.
By Geoffrey C Porter
Cover Artwork by Ben Rittmann

Writing

You can learn more about my currently available novels at, Winter's Line.com

I started writing in 2001 or 2002, I forget which. At some point I came to the conclusion spending some time in the trenches as an editor would improve my style and ability. Over the years, I've had a fair number of readers, and almost all of them enjoyed my book(s) thoroughly.

I've written seven novels and over thirty short stories. I like to think I'm a qualified writer since I have taken almost a dozen college level writing classes. Some people would consider me a published writer, while others define that as having a best seller, and I haven't done that yet.

Twelve of my short pieces have been selected for publication, including four paying markets, and one print magazine 2x (Bards and Sages). I may pursue a publisher for some of my books, but five of them I have self published. I hope to write more books.
Markets that have published my stories:
Print Static Movement : The Slight Army

MicroHorror : Trolls And Rabbits   October

Abandoned Towers : Ultraviolent Rodentia

Sonar4 ezine : No Cigarettes

Bards and Sages Quarterly : Turtles and Rabbits, published in Volume II, Issue 1
Wilber and Samantha, published in Volume III, Issue 4

The Sinclair Clairon Review published my short story Boris The Cat in 2009.

Breath and Shadow : The Bracelet

Daily Science Fiction : Longevity, Inc., published via email on Oct 18th, 2010, and posted as an RSS feed on October 25th, 2010.

My story, Grandfather's Wisdom, was selected by Antioch University Midwest for public reading on November 4th, 2010 (as a peace prize entry). It was distributed in PDF format to the Antioch Voice mailing list subscribers.
The public reading was fun. The other writers all read poetry, mine was the only story. I had to score my coffee from a vending machine though, and it was actually pretty good coffee.

A longer version of Grandfather's Wisdom was published by Joyful! in Feb 2011. Joyful! (My story is the second story in the listing).


More about my writing style and motivation.

Short Stories


To find samples of my work, visit Untied Shoelaces Samples

I take my writing very seriously, but I hope my readers never do. I write comedies, action, horror, fantasy, and romance. Sometimes all of those at the same time :)

I studied English and Literature at Sinclair Community College for a while, taking usually one class per quarter.

Information Technology

The first piece of software I wrote professonally was a chemical weapons attack simulator for the United States Air Force. This was done I think in Windows 3.1 with Visual Basic 3.0, when that was all state of the art technology. I did it on a 386-16SX I believe. I first started writing code in 1983 with the intent to build computer wargames.

Now, I focus largely on Extranet technology. Extranet is just a mesh of Internet and Intranet technologies. It's kind of an outdated term.

I'm a technology oriented person with a creative bent. I've been using and programming computers since I received my first home pc at the age of 11 (a TRS-80 with a snazzy external cassette tape drive). I have used Basic, Pascal, C, Active Server Pages, ASP.NET, Cold Fusion, PERL, PHP, Java, Javascript, HTML, Sybase SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and mySQL. I have done work ranging from document production and graphics to lead software developer on intensive e-commerce websites.

I'm interested in a position in Dayton, OH. I could see telecommuting to Cincinnati, OH or Columbus, OH. Frankly, it's the modern era, I should be able to communicate with a client exclusively over the internet and telephone. I have PHP, PERL, and mySQL here at home. I can demo stuff on GeoffPorter.com, but I don't do hosting.

I would love to work on small projects for small businesses. Perhaps you have a website already built in PHP or PERL and for some reason, you don't have the technology any more to make changes, and you'd like some minor adjustments made to it. Perhaps you want something simple and custom. No project is too small.

I don't do visual design. It simply isn't a skill I have as you can likely tell from these pages. I have always gotten along great with graphics artists. I did graphics for many years in black and white, so I find I can relate to them well.

I can be contacted via email at geoffporter@yahoo.com or on AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) at TrulyJuxta.