George Holland

Biography

All of my life I have wanted to be a writer, I just didn't always know it. Truthfully, I'm actually a storyteller and I've always known that. The problem has been that I haven't always known how to merge the two; storytelling and writing. As a child, like most children, saying I wanted to be a writer was tantamount to saying that I would enjoy having everyone in my school come up and individually smack me with a rubber chicken. Since that wasn't going to happen, I never thought about ever saying it. Likewise, when teachers asked us individually what we wished to be when we reached the age that we could be something other than a dependent on a parent's tax return, saying I wanted to be a storyteller was equivalent to volunteering for after- school detention for twelve straight years. Since that wasn't going to happen either, that was also left unsaid. But, I thought about it. I just didn't know what to do about it. So, when I graduated from high school, I didn't know what to study at university. Oh, I tried, but not very hard. Consequently, I wasn't very successful. I joined the Navy and since they don't have a job description for storytelling, they taught me electronics. When I got out of the Navy, I took that foundation to the next level and earned a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering. For the next forty-five years I made a career around computer science...and hated every minute of it. That's because I really wanted to write stories. And now I'm doing it. My published works prove that I'm doing it. I hope you like any or all of them. If not, please don't hit me with a rubber chicken.

Smashwords Interview

What do you read for pleasure?
My preference is popular fiction, but not exclusively. I also read non-fiction, especially biographies. I also enjoy the classics like Dickens. I even read the Bible, although for curiosity rather than spirituality. It might be easier to identify the writing that I don't enjoy. In that category you can put down Neo-classical philosophers, such as Paul-Michel Foucault, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Louis Althusser. While their topics could be intensely engaging, their writing styles seemed determined to obfuscate the topic with which they were engaged (wow, I sound like a Neo-classical philosopher!).
What is your e-reading device of choice?
I prefer my iPad.
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Books

Dream of Reality
Price: $9.77 USD. Words: 85,310. Language: English. Published: August 27, 2021 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
A horrendous nightmare affects the life of a high school senior boy. Future dreams, while less troubling, are somehow connected to the nightmare. They are of an old, white-haired man who, through dream images, advises the boy how to navigate his life into manhood and a reality for which others can only wish. Things go well until they don't. His reality unravels and ends in an unexpected way.

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