I am W. P. Bossing. I live in the middle of North Carolina with my long-time partner in crime, our two kids, and the wonder-twin-powers dogs, Bonnie and Clyde. I'm the only person I know who has lived in this particular combination of places: Murray, Kentucky (Go, Racers!); Portoviejo, Ecuador; Nashville, Tennessee; Lawrence, Kansas (Go, Jayhawks!); Las Vegas, Nevada; and Raleigh, North Carolina (Go, Wolfpack!). I'm not a world traveler, country music singer, or gambler, but sometimes wish I was.

 

When I'm not writing about Addy Nix, I'm probably teaching. For many years, I've taught literature to folks who probably have better things to do than read a bunch of old stories and poems, but who put up with my bookish foolishness anyway. My favorite quotation from literature is from Henry Thoreau's Walden: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” My second favorite quotation is spoken by Death, in Neil Gaiman's Sandman: “When the first living thing existed, I was there, waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.”

 

So those are some memorable words about life and about death. I figure it's up to all of us to write the words that fill in the gaps in between.

 

Here are things I do that keep me away from The Desk or The School:
Cooking good food (which leads me to...)
Eating good food (which leads me to...)

Running in the woods near our house (or)

Playing disc golf as often as I can (and then)

Reading way too many comic books and graphic novels.

 

If you ask, I'll tell you I'm working hard on Book 2 of “The Love and Death Girl,” but I'll probably really be reading the latest issue of Saga or playing an ancient version of FIFA soccer.