Brian Wiprud writes:
I wrote my first novel in Watusi Report in 1983, my second in Watusi is What You Get in 1984. Not to put too fine a point on it, but they sucked, and still do. Then I wrote two horror screenplays (Zombie Beavers, Floaters) and a couple short stories, followed in the early nineties when I wrote my first half-way viable novel called Swires Poker.
The nineties are kind of a blur of writing, and I have a hard time remembering what I wrote when. Somewhere early on I wrote Trampoline Nude, the sequel to SP, which I completely re-wrote this summer for publication in 2006.
By 1995 I had written Sleep with the Fishes, and after that I wrote $50 Moosehead (completely re-written this summer also and now Stuffed due out this June) then Pipsqueak and then by 1999 Dirt Nap (sequel to SWTF, as yet not under contract).
Somewhere in there I illustrated a children's book and two non-fiction books written by my Mom. Also in the mix were about ten fly fishing and magazine articles.
I started the road to self-publishing in 2000 with SWTF as I rewrote and finished Pipsqueak. I self-published Pipsqueak in 2002 around the same time I started the third SWTF book called Granite Hat (unfinished to date), but didn't receive my first publishing contract, with Bantam Dell, until 2003.
To summarize, I wrote eight and a half novels, two screenplays, three short stories, illustrated three books, and published ten articles over 20 years before I was officially, undeniably and irrevocably published.
Brian Wiprud attended NYU film school before settling on a career in utility infrastructure. He is an avid fly fisherman and collector of taxidermy, two hobbies which, improbably, feature in his novels, the latest of which, Stuffed, will be published this May.
