Doug Sharp

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Excerpt

BRUCE (Zondor's speech-puppet), testily: You have murdered my son/daughter.
DRON, coquettishly: I'm a bad, bad Commandrix.
BRUCE, effusively: I am Zondor the Fertile. Plenty more where he/she came from.
DRON, blatantly: Zondor is my all-night lover.
BRUCE, dryly: I really need a bath. A little dab of squid moisturizer would be a loving gesture. I have it! I trade you information for a swim. I'll sell out my people.
GALINA, voluptuously: Your lovely voice moistens me.
BRUCE, wheedlingly: Here's the deal. I sell out my planet and you let me take a bath. It's simple, see. You get all Zondor's secrets and I get a little swim.

From "Flying Squids of Zondor"

Gripping performance of Zondor by Clarion West Inmates 2002:
http://channelzilch.com/zondor.htm

Bio

I live in a remote lakeshore cabin in Wisconsin with two dogs.

I'm a computer game developer currently working to release ChipWits II--an upgrade to a classic game I wrote (with Mike Johnston) for the Mac in 1984. I am trying to get the game out the door in July, during the Write-a-thon.

While I was a fifth grade teacher I taught myself programming with Apple IIs borrowed from school. I wrote two hit games in the mid-80s: ChipWits, and Cinemaware's King of Chicago. I coded and managed in Microsoft Research's Virtual Worlds Group in the mid-90s.

I am partners with my beautiful but criminally insane daughter Margaret Sharp in the computer game company Channel Zilch: http://channelzilch.com.

My life has been punctuated by years of downtime due to a recurrent epilepsy/pain syndrome. Exotic cognitive states are commonplace in my fiction. I am an involuntary hermit. The quiet of the North Woods allows me to work.

I am a proud ex-inmate of Clarion West 2002.

Writing Description

My short stories tend to squirt out onto the page and startle bystanders. My novel Hel's Bet (in rewrite) is a fast-paced adventure--fun characters doing cool stuff.

"Hel's Bet has an awesome voice, kick-ass characters, and a fun plot. The prose reads easy (barring some places where I got tripped up by the technobabble) and I laughed often all the way through. You totally nailed the aspects that will make agents stand up and take notice (voice, characters, story)."

- Janice Hardy, whose trilogy The Pain Merchants will be published by Balser & Bray/HarperCollins.

Goals

I am going to work on "Operation American Freedom":

"In 2013 George W. Bush leads of a band of American insurgents fighting Chinese/Iranian invaders. It's hard work."

I will put the book online on July 4th and work on a few chapters a week. I've written about 22k words of its ~75k words. I will write for an hour at least 6 times a week.

I will put a donate button on the OAF website. I will try to generate at least $100.

Website

Dougsharp.wordpress.com is where I blog intermittently, mostly about living in my cabin.

Everybody (particularly geeks) please visit chipwits.com and play our cool game.

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