Hello. Allow me to introduce myself.

I’m Doug. Thanks for visiting my website.

I grew up in a small town in the high desert of eastern Oregon where people were outnumbered by cattle at a ratio of 1000:1. I’ll be the first to admit that I was a weird kid. I lived in my head and in the stories I read. Trust me, unless I wanted to join the Rodeo Team, there wasn’t much else to do unless you were really into watching a small town die a slow death after the lumber mills shut down. That wasn’t my thing.

I always wanted to be a writer. But life had other plans for me, and I spent the next thirty years building a life for myself and my family. During the time I spent not writing, I had a wide range of vocations. I have been a portrait photographer, a helicopter pilot, a roofing installer, an Emergency Medical Technician, a Jiu Jitsu instructor, a cold storage warehouse worker, graphic designer, and have spent countless hours volunteering with Search and Rescue.

I build and race FPV quads and spend hour and hours perfecting my freestyle skills. If you don’t know what that is, click here to learn more (this video blew my mind and I was hooked). Trust me, it’s fucking awesome. Unless you’re prone to motion sickness and vertigo.

If you haven’t guessed by now, I’m a fan of all things horror. And when I discovered H.P. Lovecraft sometime in my fourth-grade year, I was hooked. Maybe it was the mild pre-pubescent angst I was feeling at the time, or the overwhelming sense of hopelessness of life in an isolated small town in literally, the middle of nowhere, but the cosmic horror of his stories grabbed me. Aside from his obvious racism and overuse of describing things as… indescribable… he was a visionary. And the visions were deliciously horrible.

So, in a very brief nutshell, that’s a good introduction into who I am. The long version would take decades to get through and honestly, neither of us has time for that. I spent most of my life so far, NOT writing and I decided to change that. So here we are. Most of what I wrote above is true, but I’m a writer. Creative writing is, in fact, creative lying, so you be the judge. As you always should be.