Tom Zombie in the Flesh December 7, 2017 – Posted in: Books, Fiction, Short Story, video, Zombie

December 2017— I’ve been working on the fifth installment in the Tom Zombie series for a long time—a crazy long time, in fact. Far too much editing and over-thinking, leads to tossing out ideas in favor of different ones all in hopes of following a story path that readers will appreciate. As I go through my process, I tend to ask questions of my characters. Would they behave in a certain way? Is this, or…

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There is no “I” in “CANCER” March 14, 2017 – Posted in: Inspiration, Non-Fiction, Real life, Thoughts

March 2017— One thing cancer has shown me is that no matter how much you prepare and educate yourself you can never fully understand the enormity of what it means to have cancer. Oh, I wasn’t diagnosed with cancer. My wife was. When one person is diagnosed with cancer, the ones closest to them are afflicted too. There’s no way around it. You can’t complain. You have no choice but to roll up your sleeves and…

It’s not whether you win or lose… February 15, 2017 – Posted in: Inspiration, Thoughts

February 2017— So, I entered a short story contest the other day. I receive various email updates from a myriad of writing sites and groups, one of which was notifying me that their short(er) story contest deadline was being extended. Normally, I pass these sorts of contests up for one reason or another (time, topic, there’s a fee involved, etc.), but this one peaked my interest because the entry was to be only 1000 words…

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Recording My First Audio Book December 15, 2015 – Posted in: Audiobooks

December, 2015 — In 2014 my grandfather was 101, and sometime in late summer of that year he expressed an interest in reading one of my e-book stories, so I thought I’d print my short story Savage out for him. I printed it in decidedly super large text for easier reading because the macular degeneration of my grandfather’s eyes had made reading very difficult (he said it was like looking through an ice cube). I visited…

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Zombie Redemption Release August 28, 2015 – Posted in: Fiction, Short Story, Zombie

August 2015 — Zombie Redemption – post release update Four down… two to go. That’s right, two more installments, then the Tom Zombie series will come to an end. Next up will be Zombie Survival, and after that, the last in the series will be Zombie Death (take that title to mean whatever you’d like). Six installments seems like a good number for this series. I can’t say too much about the fifth installment, Zombie…

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A Teller of Short Stories June 23, 2014 – Posted in: Book, Fiction, Real life, Short Story, Zombie

June 2014 — Local man fulfills a childhood dream with his series of self-published short stories By Wendy Freeman Davis Kernersville News Features & News Editor A Kernersville man is turning his interest in writing into a series of self-published short stories with an unusual protagonist, named Tom Zombie. For as long as H.D. Timmons, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., can remember, art and writing have been a big part of his life. Today, he…

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All Things Being Equal May 2, 2014 – Posted in: Non-Fiction, Real life, Thoughts

May 2014 — So I bought a new pair of sneakers. I wore them for an entire day, but noticed that the right shoe squeaked more on bare floor surfaces. Just needs breaking in, I thought. At the end of the day I observed that both sneakers were identical except for the tread pattern on the bottom. As snap decisions go, I much preferred the tread on the left sneaker, with its dips and contours,…