I am writing this under duress. Send help!

I always wanted to be a gun for hire.  So, when Stephen asked me to join him and my pal K.S. Brooks as a contributing author with the Indies Unlimited team, the decision was easy.  I strapped on my six-shooters.  And by six shooters, I mean pants.

It didn’t require any thought.  Stephen and Kat are good people.  I like to do the thing where my fingers make the words in my brain come out.  I like to have lots of outlets for my work: blogs, stories, music, novels, graffiti – you name it, I’ve done it (except for the graffiti part).

I’ll be throwing up a few posts a week.  Wait, that sounds painful and disgusting.   I’ll be posting a few things a week.  Stephen was kind enough to give me a lot of leeway.  Until I inevitably abuse it.  So, it may be an article like the one I posted recently about writer’s block (here).  It may be a story like ‘She’ that was featured exclusively on IU (here).  It may be a shopping list if I get desperate.  Or a list of people that I need…some of you fine people to, um, pay a visit to.

Here’s the straight dope.  Writing is the only thing I love that doesn’t love me back.  And I love and respect it for that.  I’m also a musician and know from years of experience that independent artists (writers, musicians, visual artists, etc) need to stick together.  This is a great resource for writers, a good place for straight up entertainment, and a really bad place to try and sell discounted Viagra.  I’m proud to be part of it.  (Wanna buy some cheap Viagra?)

Stephen is a good guy.  Not as attractive as some, but by some I mean me (and that’s not really fair…I mean, c’mon).  Kat is an awesome lady.  She works too hard.  But I suppose that is charming in some way.  Most importantly, they can both write like cats with their tails on fire (I have no idea what that means).

So, a big thanks to Stephen and Kat and all you lovely people out there in internet-land.  I hope to contribute something other than being the smart, attractive one.  But I’ll take what I can get.

One caveat.  IU is a PG-13 blog which literally cuts my vocabulary in half, but I’ll do my best.  And you can always find tourettes-esque rambling and ‘Live Nude Girls’ 24 hours a day on my blog at www.jdmader.com.

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JD Mader is the author of ‘Joe Café’ and a contributing author to Indies Unlimited. You can find more of JD’s writing at his blog www.jdmader.com.

Author: JD Mader

JD Mader is an award winning short story writer and novelist. 'Joe Café' and 'The Biker' are out now, as well as 'Please, no eyes'. and the collaborative 'Bad Book'. Mader has been writing for half his life and has no plans on stopping any time soon. Learn more about JD Mader at his blog and his Amazon author page. View all posts by JD Mader