T A M W O R K S
Welcome
to the main page for Tristan MacAvery's official web page. As you can see by
this comparatively simple and potentially boring design, it's very much in the
category of "under construction." In fact, because I'm always growing
and changing, it's extraordinarily likely that it will be continually under
construction from now until the last trump sounds. (Even then, I'll probably be
trying to tweak something just before reporting to the Eternal Accountant for a
tallying of my karmic books.) However, that doesn't mean that you can't
browse a bit and have a look at what's going on around here. Start here, with an
overview of what everything looks like...
TRISTAN'S GROG
(That's a General Rant log)
May 5, 2007: Okay, okay, I'm finally updating things. There are reasons why I've been so lax in keeping this blasted thing going. Care to find out what they are?
CONVENTION ALERT:
Tristan will be the Guest of Honor
(wow!) at IKASUCON,
August 10-12 in Fort Wayne, IN.
Watch for more details, coming soon!
Intangible
Plastics is my "services department." This is where you'll get information
on my abilities and availability as a technical or creative writer, as a writing
mentor, as a presenter of seminars, as a coach in improvisation (for personal or
corporate classes), as a teacher and lecturer for schools and universities, and
as a complete and utter loony who performs in theater, film, and (in a pinch)
stand-up.
NEW—May 2007: Intangible Plastics will have its own offices near downtown
Columbus IN this month. More details when they happen!
The Luck Dragon's Lair is
my "tangibles department." This is where you'll find all the books that I've got
for sale, along with other other products—everything from the occasional rarity
(board games, books, videos, music, etc.) to the books and goods produced by my
friends (folks you can trust to have really good stuff). This is also where the
"tangibles" of my seminars will be—the handouts, the audio CDs, programs and
such like. This is a location you'll want to return to often, since you never
know just what you might find...
Words is the "verbal
department." I'm a writer, which means that I'm babblative in real life and just
plain verbose on paper. You'll find sample chapters of my books here, along with
supplements to said books (snippets of new novels, background stories to current
novels, and more), not to mention observations of the world at large (Enlarge
Your World), fan fiction (I've written about a great many worlds rather than
the ones that I've invented and/or inhabit), and just about anything else to do
with words in general. You might even find some new words up here, since
I'm rather fond of educating (from the Latin educare, meaning "to lead").
Me
is the "Tristan department." This is where you'll find all the dirt—er,
facts, I mean facts about me and my various contributions to the
world. This section is all about the man behind the myth, which is probably a
good thing, since a myth is as good as a mile. It will include a media kit
for those who need material for an article, website, etc. You'll also find
most of my favorite websites in this area. You'll discover my causes (can
you imagine what it took to cause me in the first place? No, don't go there...),
my quirks, my pet peeves (or as Whoopi Goldberg put it, "whole kennels of
irritation"), my interests, my fascinations, and various tidbits that I put my
attention toward. If you think you're up to this sort of thing, please feel free
to dive right in...
BOOKS REVIEWED: 23
FILMS REVIEWED: 13
MUSIC REVIEWED: 0
REALLY STUPID PEOPLE REVEALED: 9
I like buying my stuff from Amazon.Com, and I
hope that you do too. Throughout my site, I'll have links from movies, music,
and books that I recommend, so that you can order quickly and easily through
Amazon's incredible website.
(Okay, so I make a few pennies off the deal while you're there.
Do you blame me? A guy's gotta eat, after all, and it's not like I'm stealing it
from your pocket, eh? I really do think that Amazon does a great job with
service, selection, and quality, so it's not all just puffery. Click on through.
Enjoy.)
This web and contents ©2006-2007 by Tristan MacAvery, all rights reserved, please do not use without permission, and all that other legal rot. Does anyone actually bother to read print this tiny? Why? This is not an eye test! Go read something more interesting—like, say, my writings in all the other sections of this website.