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 Terry
W. Lovaas
Born March 21, 1948.
Like most people, I like a good story. My mother read to my brother and me most
every night and I enjoyed reading books when I got older. I wrote my first short
story in fifth grade (“Escape from Vampire Island”) and I got enough positive
feedback from my teacher, Mrs. Johnson, that I thought this writing stuff was
pretty cool. In ninth grade, I wrote “The Problem Pitcher” and it won the short
story contest for Mr. Main’s English class – and I pocketed the $5.00 Grand
Prize.
I played around with writing in high school and college but other interests
(cars, girls, jobs, marriage, family, career) were more of a priority for me. It
wasn’t until the mid-eighties that I found I could no longer ignore my need to
write. I enrolled in a creative writing class at a local Vo-Tech. There, I met
other people who had the same need to write. That core group stayed together,
met whenever and wherever we could, read our latest stuff out loud, listened and
gently critiqued each others’ work. People from that group have sold short
stories, a novel or two and even published their own collection of writings.
While I have published several short stories and two articles, there is really
nothing to compare with getting your novel published. It’s been a long road but
well worth the time and effort.
I live in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota with my wife and son. My
daughter lives in south Minneapolis. While as a young man, I had a
series of factory jobs (where I learned many interesting things about people and
about life), my main career has been in cable television. I started counting
converters in the warehouse, ran camera for studio and event productions,
learned how to edit, taught television production classes, managed a group of
producers, operated my own video production company for four years (weddings,
fishing tapes, horseshoe pitching tournaments and corporate videos) and I wrote
and produced TV commercials for fourteen years. I currently manage a group of
part-time TV producers in the northwest suburbs of Minneapolis.
 Mark
Neuman-Scott
Born sometime in the 20th century
I love art. When I was a little kid in Houston, Texas, I made animals and people
out of clay, creating little worlds of my own. Art has always been a central
part of my life. Drawing, painting, taking photos, making movies, ceramics – I
just need to be creating something. In college, I started in ceramics and ended
up in photography and film. I also studied video. At graduate school I studied
documentaries and video. Video was a new art form for me. Today, I’m back to
ceramics and painting. Video just happens to pay the bills.
I have always liked a good story whether it is in a book, article, television
program or a movie. I have co-written several screenplays. Two were made into
feature films with friends and were shown at some film festivals. If you are
looking for them, good luck. The titles are “Uprising” and “Visions of a
Misfit.” Both were made with Kevin Zinniel and Steve Garbe. “Lady Luck’s Smile”
has had a couple attempts at turning it into a screenplay.
I have always been a reader. As a kid I read all the time and, yes, at times
under the covers with a flashlight. Since my father was a college professor, I
really never had to worry about being yelled at for staying up and reading. It
was expected. Somewhere along the line in my reading career, I found Agatha
Christie and Sherlock Holmes and I’ve loved the mystery form ever since. When I
tried writing, it was no surprise that I chose mysteries.
St. Paul’s Lowertown is where I live with my wife Paula. We have three children
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