J. D. Tew

Three years ago, I had written this bio in the third person and from a place of ignorance. I thought about how I wanted you to see me and know of me, rather than giving you me as I am. So I’ll keep it simple. I’m a family man and a veteran. I don’t screw around with anything I don’t think will help people feel something. That’s why I write, because I want you to feel and do outside of what you have in the past. So you might see a clear representation of war in my stories or vulnerability, and not without courage. Because if there is one thing that excites me, it’s people who put themselves out there in the eyes of their peers to be judged. In the coming years, Im going to give you a look at my imagination. Take it or leave it, I’m a person who has feelings and sees strange things that don’t exist in our world. I want you to go on that adventure with me, seeing places and people that are grotesque and fleshed and weird. But there’s another part of this, the monetary part. I don’t give two blanks about growing readership or seeing myself in the New York Times or winning the Hugo award or accumulating all sorts of money and a fancy mansion on a river somewhere, as I once dreamed. I only want to sell books so that I can save veterans. That’s it.