From J. Alexander Cohen...
I always wanted to write. I loved the Peanuts comics where Snoopy would tap out stories on his typewriter, defying physics sitting perched atop his doghouse. From the age of 14 I took writing seriously and spent my evenings on Dad’s Selectric in the basement, followed by my home computer.
I wrote my first good novel, Bear Like Me, in 1999, and it was published in 2003. It took from age 14 to age 31 for my writing to get good enough to be published. From 2003 to 2019, my writing was on hiatus while I was helping Mom out with Dad and his mild cognitive impairment…later, Alzheimer’s.
I’ve been very fortunately that all of my jobs have involved writing in one way or another: legal editor, CD-ROM editor, freelance writer, technical writer, marketing writer, court reporter, blogger and so on.
It’s been a checkered career, but all that experience has been great grist for the fiction writing mill.
I started writing seriously again after major surgery in 2020. My first project was a podcast, The Lavender Tavern. You can find out about my other writing work on the rest of this site.
My latest novel, Talio’s Codex, is out now.
