But my ambition skyrocketed in 1981 when MTV came to town. There wasn’t a lot of upward mobility there and no one had much ambition. When you grow up in Oklahoma, your world is small. There are two things that helped me see that there was more to this world than what I was experiencing.
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We had a one screen movie theater in my town and most of my family would go to the horse races on the weekend to gamble away their wages. My father was a truck driver and my mother was a secretary.
There were not a lot of outlets for being a creative person where I grew up.
I was raised in a small town in northeastern Oklahoma. Quite frankly, I wasn’t sure I was worthy enough to contribute. I was an outsider lurking at the fringes of a place where it didn’t feel like I belonged. I was venturing into a world where some people knew a LOT more than I did about a particular subject. Why? For the exact same reason I was scared to go into the comic shops when I was younger. When I was asked to create a guest post for SPFBO 7, I was trepidatious.
If you want to check out the rest of our SPFBO coverage, be sure to check our SPFBO 7 landing page here. Girdner who talks a bit about his road to writing fantasy! And now, we are joined today by Randall P. Hello everyone and welcome to our latest guest post for the 7th annual Self Published Fantasy Blog Off! I have been working on reaching out to each of the authors who have landed in our batch of books for the competition to see if they would be interested in being interviewed or contributing a guest article in an attempt to drum up a little extra excitement for their book and (hopefully) get to know them a bit better.