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I'm currently working on the final revision of the novel 2076. This process has gone slowly, though much thanks are in order towards a fine young group of writer's who I've work with since 2007, the Somerquillians Writer's Group. There are two drafts (published April '09 and July '07) available for download on the 2076 website. I expect to publish the final version of the novel on the site sometime during the first quarter of 2011, produce an audiobook, and sell it through via Print-on-Demand next summer.
Published on October 6, 2009... An Illustrated Storybook: Polar Bears by Rob Van Dyk.
This is a fun project I started on a whim. Instead of typing out verbose paragraphs with rich-textual descriptions I hit up the Wikipedia Featured Pictures archive and found a wonderful shot of the USS Honolulu and some polar bears. From here, I browsed Google Images for public domain high-resolution pictures related to polar bears by searching on "site:gov" with various terms related to polar bears and setting a target for only "large images". The rest is history.
I must say, the quantity and quality of pictures available is fairly limitted, but it's amazing what you can do with what's out there.
A future project that I'd like to work on is a novel called Youthful Exuberance that I conceived a number of years ago. This project is on the back burner.
