Geoffrey Craig Porter
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Electronic Magazine (eZine) of Fiction for the Mind
"God made me for War"
"New way? What's this about a new way?"
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
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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 It's kind of an outdated term.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 worry more about writing these days than anything, and my eZine. |
WritingI started writing eight years ago. I recently 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 30 short stories. Some of those stories are posted on this site. I like to think I'm a qualified writer since I have almost a dozen college level writing classes. But I also intend to continue in school. 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 plan to pursue publishers and agents with some of my books while self publishing other books by me. 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 Oct 2011, Volume III, Issue 4 The Sinclair Clairon Review published my short story Boris The Cat in 2009. You can find it on my OKCupid.com profile, I'm Truly71 on OK Cupid. 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 StoriesList Stories by ContentI 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 two years. I intend to move on to Wright State University in the Fall of '09. All stories are fiction, any similarity to persons living or dead is sheer coincidence. Many stories contain adult content, click List Stories by Content.
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Information TechnologyI'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. |
