Tim Kane didn't start out life wanting to be a writer. He actually drifted toward visual arts. He would later explore this area with a several year stint as a graphic designer. In high school, he thought he would definitely become an engineer. A horrific first semester at UCSD (in which he erroneously scheduled his finals, missing nearly all of them), led him toward a different path.
In the last semester of high school Tim was fortunate enough to take a new course offering by Susan Vreeland (yes, she actually used to teach us kids before going on too become such a famous author). She opened Tim's eyes to the beauty of words and started his career as a writer. After the disaster in college (and thinking how tedious it would be to live life as an engineer), Tim shifted majors to English and creative writing.
Ironically, he didn't learn much about writing from UCSD. Most of the courses were workshop based and simply rehashed the same stories over and over until ground into a pulp. Only at the end of his tenure at college did he stumble onto some real writing help: screenwriting. To Tim, this actually gave the fundamentals of plot, dialogue, and narrative structure. After college he pursued screenwriting, picking up the skills needed to create a decent story. His first complete work was The Lame Duck Conspiracy. A mediocre screenplay at best, but it was a complete work longer than three pages. Quite an accomplishment for someone who up 'til then focused mostly on poems and short-shorts.
Tim published many of his shorter and more experimental works through the 5th Wall along with Chad Mealey and David Hurwitz. He finally wrote his first true short story only after completing his first novel. The short story (Breathing Space) would be his first published creative work. His first sale was an article for Verbatim magazine. The subject combined his two passions, teaching elementary school and the love of words.
In pursuit of his Masters in English, Tim was able to explore another one of his passions: monster movies. His thesis explored how vampire movies have evolved over the years. This he completed in an astounding six weeks. A few months later, due to the prompting of his wife Kate, he submitted a proposal to McFarland to print his thesis. The publisher agreed and the book is due to come out in late 2006.
Two of Tim's stories won awards in 2007. His historical story Zombie Maker won third place with Bards and Sages. It will appear in the Bards and Sages Anthology in 2008. His creepy tale of a kid and his zombie uncle, Moth and Rust, won first place in the Garden State Horror Writing Contest. This tale has not yet seen print, and Tim will shop this around 2008.
Tim attended the SDSU Writing Conference and the Souther California Writer's Conference and shopped around his first children's novel and a horror novel. The conference was very educating and he found many leads.
Tim currently lives in Chula Vista with his three muses, Kate, Lilly (the zombie baby in the picture), and Bela.
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