Not With a Bang

I currently teach (can you guess?) college writing, but have also taught courses in literature, mythology and folklore, film, media studies and communication. I am also a professional musician and recording engineer with a number of albums of ballroom music under the name Lunamoon, and an album of soundtrack music under the name Trips, available on iTunes, Amazon and other on-line stores, just like my self-published novel Not with a Bang.

Not with a Bang has a strange and rather sad history. I wrote virtually the entire novel in the mid to late 1990’s, but put it away for 10 years after 9/11 because I felt that the racial, cultural and gender hatred and conflicts I depict in the novel were no longer pertinent, since it seemed that the nation was ready to unify against a common enemy. Unfortunately, this novel has become a work of uncanny prophesy. It may surprise some readers to know that I wrote the elementary school shooting chapter PRIOR to the Columbine shootings in 1999 and first grader Dedrick Owens’ shooting of a classmate a year later. I also wrote the scene where the terrorists plan to use weaponized anthrax PRIOR to the anthrax attack just after 9/11. I sincerely hope that the race war I depict near the end of this novel will not come true, and that is the primary reason I have published this novel now. It was believed by many cultures that the gift of prophesy was in fact a curse from the Gods, and I’m beginning to believe that.