Hi. Right about now, if you're as impatient as I, you're wondering, "Okay, where's the stuff about Jack the Ripper that led me here?" All in good time. True, I've written a Jack the Ripper novel called OUT OF TIME, which was represented by literary agent extraordinaire Kimberley Cameron of Reece Halsey, who thought that it was a work of genius. Alas, Kate Miciak of Bantam, Bob Mecoy of Simon & Schuster, Jamie Raab of Warner, and other luminaries of the publishing industry didn't quite reciprocate her enthusiasm so the book more or less remains in mothballs to this day.

However, when I first opened this website over a year ago (around October/November 1997), I'd started out with only a few pages and I've written a lot of stuff since then. If you look at the excerpts below, you'll see that I don�t write all science fiction, or even fiction.

I'd started out writing poetry at the relatively tender age of 18 while still a high school senior. Naturally, as one would expect, these poems will never see the light of day even under penalty of death. But rarely does one start out a prodigy. For me, as for many other writers, writing is not a natural act. For many young writers, achieving "the mighty line" is the thing, verbal pyrotechnics, and only after some harsh realities does one learn that that is only one part of literary execution. There's also such a thing as actually telling a story, advancing ideas to their logical conclusion, as if an idea indeed has a logical conclusion or even a conclusion, period.

Anyway, enough of my pet ideas about the art of writing. Some more of such dogmas can be found in the essay series found below.

I think that it's only fair and gracious to tell you all that this page is made possible through the unbelievable generosity of the friendly folk at Tripod, who give anyone who registers, free of charge, 11 megs of disk drive space toward their own home page. For you computer newbies out there, that's the equivalent of about 10-12 average-length novels.

That said, let's get on with the links and thanks for visiting.

Robert Crawford

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