No more eBay.  No more IT.  No more 12-hour graveyard shifts.  No more corporate bullocks.

I quit my job as a site engineer at eBay on July 11, 2011, and moved from sleepy Parker, CO, to Seattle, WA, to seek my fortune in the great Pacific Northwest.

Ahhhhh...

So now I try what I should have been doing nine years ago, when I graduated from college with a BFA degree, intent to become an artist and a writer, but too scared to stomach the effort it would take.  Now I have broken free from the easy paycheck of a corporate job and I'm not scared anymore.

I would say I wasted nine years, but that's not true.  Most great novels don't come about until the author grows up, and that's what I've been doing since college -- watching, observing, learning, waiting to find what I really wanted out of life.

Now I have finished my first novel, which I have written in my spare time for the past year.  It's not "Star-crossed," it's a shorter story called "The Golden Bridle."  Not that I gave up on "Star-crossed," I just needed to start with a less epic story, one I could complete, to prove to myself I could finish a novel-length piece.

Next, I create illustrations for it.  Then I figure out how to publish it.

So many possibilities, so many questions, so much uncertainty.  So much to learn.  It is daunting, but I will try.  Because a person only lives so long, and I'm not going to spend that time watching servers anymore.