U.L. Harper Revealed...Again
Okay, I’ve tried being professional with this bio stuff and it just doesn’t work. I’m simply not that professional. So let me really tell you about me.
If you know me none of this will be too new. Here goes anyway.
First off I write books. I write science fiction and fantasy based in reality. Think Vonnegut meets Mccarthy. My stories are never straight forward. My novels are basically devoid of romance. Love, yes. Romance, no. I don’t believe in romance, a lie a man tells to a woman’s reality. I have no business writing it. One thing all my novels have is that they take place in the immediate future or a slightly facetious present. If that doesn’t make sense then, damn. Leave me a comment somewhere, I guess.
I started writing when every other author starting writing—at about 12 years old, with a pencil and a spiral bound notebook. Had no idea I was writing stories. On any level, I finished my first novel at about 23 years old. It was a handwritten manuscript and all of it was in pencil. It was called The Nothing Bottom and nobody will ever read it, because I lost it right after I wrote it. My next novel I lost on a floppy disc. It simply disappeared from off the disc. I had to reimagine the entire thing. The current version is called IN BLACKNESS. Anyone willing can purchase it from wherever books are sold. It’s a good time. If I were to choose between that book and Disneyland I’d just kick Mickey in face and then go read my book.
I’m a native to Long Beach, California and attended Long Beach Poly High School and then Cypress Community College where I became Editor In Chief of the Cypress Chronicle (in the good ol' days).
I took all of my college skills and became a movie theater manager, because everyone knows how much high school and two years of college prepares you for success in the world. What I won’t tell you about is the small amount of time when I was homeless and sleeping in my car, in which officers wouldn’t let me sleep in from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. because it was against city ordinance. Hell I won’t even mention how bad the public treats homeless. I mean, I had no home but I was in school full-time and had a job. Where the system failed, my friends helped me out.
Now I run after-school programs in Long Beach. Over three hundred students attend my programs. Nope, this wasn’t my first choice for work. My first choice was to be a professional tetherball player. Then I wanted to be a journalist. Actually, I wound up succeeding on a small level with the journalist thing. It’s just that $8 an hour will have you finding another job pretty quick. That bicycle wasn’t working for me, wasn’t getting me anywhere so to speak. That paper closed anyway.
Side note. This is how you know you’re a good friend of mine—your parents kick me out of your house for writing something so bad that I need to get kicked out. “Someone needs to put the mother back in fucker” and “Someone needs to put the God back in damn” will get you vanquished from households. A proud and sad moment of mine. That’s actually when I started reading the bible again. See my friends dad gave me one so I could get better but, I don’t know. Am I better now? After enough searching in the bible I found all these stories of what might have been visits by aliens. I used a bunch of this information and put it in my novel IN BLACKNESS. If you so wish, you can purchase it wherever books are sold and on all electronic devices.
Last thing until I say more—I’m realizing I’m closer to forty years of age than thirty years of age. It’s friggin weird. I’m not saying I’m old. I’m saying I’m now truly aware that I’m aging. Are my ideas getting any better? No. Do I feel or seem wiser? Hell, no. Technology is leveling out the wisdom playing field. I just don’t know shit about shit, but now I can more easily find out…so I hear.
I’m going to exit this bio with a quote. I use this quote to explain my general stance on life, love, hope, the future, family, and even finances. “A wise man once said…fuck it.”
I’m active on goodreads.com and twitter or contact me at ulharper1@gmail.com
In Blackness
If you know me none of this will be too new. Here goes anyway.
First off I write books. I write science fiction and fantasy based in reality. Think Vonnegut meets Mccarthy. My stories are never straight forward. My novels are basically devoid of romance. Love, yes. Romance, no. I don’t believe in romance, a lie a man tells to a woman’s reality. I have no business writing it. One thing all my novels have is that they take place in the immediate future or a slightly facetious present. If that doesn’t make sense then, damn. Leave me a comment somewhere, I guess.
I started writing when every other author starting writing—at about 12 years old, with a pencil and a spiral bound notebook. Had no idea I was writing stories. On any level, I finished my first novel at about 23 years old. It was a handwritten manuscript and all of it was in pencil. It was called The Nothing Bottom and nobody will ever read it, because I lost it right after I wrote it. My next novel I lost on a floppy disc. It simply disappeared from off the disc. I had to reimagine the entire thing. The current version is called IN BLACKNESS. Anyone willing can purchase it from wherever books are sold. It’s a good time. If I were to choose between that book and Disneyland I’d just kick Mickey in face and then go read my book.
I’m a native to Long Beach, California and attended Long Beach Poly High School and then Cypress Community College where I became Editor In Chief of the Cypress Chronicle (in the good ol' days).
I took all of my college skills and became a movie theater manager, because everyone knows how much high school and two years of college prepares you for success in the world. What I won’t tell you about is the small amount of time when I was homeless and sleeping in my car, in which officers wouldn’t let me sleep in from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. because it was against city ordinance. Hell I won’t even mention how bad the public treats homeless. I mean, I had no home but I was in school full-time and had a job. Where the system failed, my friends helped me out.
Now I run after-school programs in Long Beach. Over three hundred students attend my programs. Nope, this wasn’t my first choice for work. My first choice was to be a professional tetherball player. Then I wanted to be a journalist. Actually, I wound up succeeding on a small level with the journalist thing. It’s just that $8 an hour will have you finding another job pretty quick. That bicycle wasn’t working for me, wasn’t getting me anywhere so to speak. That paper closed anyway.
Side note. This is how you know you’re a good friend of mine—your parents kick me out of your house for writing something so bad that I need to get kicked out. “Someone needs to put the mother back in fucker” and “Someone needs to put the God back in damn” will get you vanquished from households. A proud and sad moment of mine. That’s actually when I started reading the bible again. See my friends dad gave me one so I could get better but, I don’t know. Am I better now? After enough searching in the bible I found all these stories of what might have been visits by aliens. I used a bunch of this information and put it in my novel IN BLACKNESS. If you so wish, you can purchase it wherever books are sold and on all electronic devices.
Last thing until I say more—I’m realizing I’m closer to forty years of age than thirty years of age. It’s friggin weird. I’m not saying I’m old. I’m saying I’m now truly aware that I’m aging. Are my ideas getting any better? No. Do I feel or seem wiser? Hell, no. Technology is leveling out the wisdom playing field. I just don’t know shit about shit, but now I can more easily find out…so I hear.
I’m going to exit this bio with a quote. I use this quote to explain my general stance on life, love, hope, the future, family, and even finances. “A wise man once said…fuck it.”
I’m active on goodreads.com and twitter or contact me at ulharper1@gmail.com
In Blackness
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