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Ed Davis began his writing career forty years ago, pausing in boxcars, under streetlamps and in hobo jungles to record the beats and rhythms of the road as he caught freight trains and vagabonded around the Pacific Northwest and Canada.

In the decades since, while his destinations and modes of travel may have changed, his quest to capture the essence of the traveling experience has remained true. He lives in Glen Ellen, California with his wife Jan.

His next novel, "The Last Professional" is due for release from Artemesia Publishing in January of 2022! ...more

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Ed Davis Craft and technique are important, and it is hard to be successful without them, but if what you are writing doesn't move you in some essential way, t…moreCraft and technique are important, and it is hard to be successful without them, but if what you are writing doesn't move you in some essential way, then it is unlikely to move others.(less)

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Ed Davis I just finished a novella called In All Things, A Return to the Drooling Ward. In 1914 Jack London immortalized what was then called The Sonoma State …moreI just finished a novella called In All Things, A Return to the Drooling Ward. In 1914 Jack London immortalized what was then called The Sonoma State Home for the Feeble Minded in his short story, Told in the Drooling Ward. In 1970 the narrator of this story enters that same institution as a seventeen year old trainee. In London’s day the inmates were called droolers, feebs, and eplics. As this story begins the terms that replaced those; moron, imbecile and idiot have only recently been phased out, and the inmates are now called residents. Yet by any name the population of nearly thirty five hundred the narrator finds there are much as they were in London’s time, and the care they receive is not much changed.(less)

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Fourteen years ago today, at 5 AM, I sat down at my computer with the intention of writing a fifty thousand word novel in twenty-four hours. Partially inspired by National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo, when asked why I was doing it, the only answer I had was “to see if I can.”

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