Guest Blogger: David Wellington
You might be familiar with David Wellington's Monster Island Trilogy, but you might not know that Mr. Wellington is a card carrying member of the MLS club. Today he has stopped by to share his tale of "The World’s Most Dangerous Library."
Don't miss out on David's latest thriller Chimera, out in July. If you like a little sci-fi mixed with your action, you'll love this suspenseful story of a small band of fugitives who escape from a secret upstate NY military facility, leaving a trail of bodies in their wake. Dun, dun dun!
Interested in some sneak peeks? You can find an excerpt of Chimera here, and (this is cool!) check out Minotaur, an e-short original here!
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When I finished grad school in Creative Writing, my professors took me aside. I was never going to make it as a writer, they told me, and I had received a B in a class on Medieval Poetry (unacceptable!) so I was never going to be a teacher. They wished me luck and asked what I would do next.
I had no idea.
So I moved to New York City in 2002 with no skills and no future. All I really had was my love for books. I decided I would go to library school and get yet another degree, which would raise my job prospects from non-existent to, well, poor. I enrolled at the Pratt Institute for the MLS degree, full of hope (it’s free, unlike the degree). I did not know at the time that I was beginning an adventure that would expose me to snipers, terrorists and foreign spies.
No, really.
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