Gerard Houarner

GERARD HOUARNER is a retired but still licensed mental health counselor and certified rehabilitation counselor, after 38 years of street clinic and government institutional work, including a stint in a Forensic Psychiatric Center (a real world's "Arkham")

He's had over 300 short stories published since his first publication at 19 in Space and Time, some of which can be found in 10 collections including the latest, Painfreak: Ultimate Edition from The Evil Cookie Publishing. Anthologies include a couple of "Dead Cat" collaborations with the artist Gak and a host of horror's best writers and poets. Novels include the "Max" series and a couple of fantasies including In the Country of Dreaming Caravans.

He's had many valuable writing teachers of the years, but none ever spoke truer words than his first—Joseph Heller at CCNY for a couple of years in the 70's—who read his sf and fantasy stories and told him he could write well enough, but didn't know how he'd make a living writing the kinds of things he liked to write. So it goes...

Website: http://www.cith.org/gerard

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Gerard-Houarner/e/B001KCRFAA

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