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I met fellow creative (read: "doomed") Jamie Bishop a few months ago after an impulsive stop at Jason Erik Lundberg's journal. Jason wrote about heading out to my neck of the woods to get interviewed by Jamie. I read "Carrboro" and "audio" and decided to follow a hypertext link to Jamie's site (yes, I'm exactly that internet savvy), and drop him a note. Mike Jasper had dropped my name to Jamie (Mike, Jason, and I used to be in a writer's critique group together), so it seems like we were soulmates, except that we're both married, heterosexual men who aren't attracted to each other, with all the emotional baggage that goes with that ordeal.
Jamie's a multimedia artist, if that's not too vague. He's done book covers for Mike Jasper, Michael Bishop, and Jason's Two Cranes Press. What really impresses me is his photography, and the digital art he's made out of it. It's generally dark enough to make an impression, deep enough to make that impression worth having, and simple enough to let you enjoy looking at it in the first place. Check out his portfolio for samples and insights into his creative process, particularly under Illustration and Collage. Then you should email him and order three dozen poster sized prints of his wife's photo, just to freak him out. We hit it off, and I ended up releasing his interview with Jason at Telltale. We 
talked about doing some projects together--and I hope we still might--but we knew he was moving to Virginia at the end of May so everything was on hold until he said he wanted to take some photos of people in the area before he left. I'd been considering hiring someone to take some promo photos for a presskit and maybe a new headshot, so of course I pounced on the idea. And a week ago Thursday, just a few days before he and Steffi left town for good, he took over 100 photos of me. I narrowed it down to six (three somewhat serious ones and three candids) and wrote up a new bio for my first presskit. Thanks Jamie! Filed under Journal, Peers & Peerless, Pretty Pictures, Vanity Smurf  
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They're missing out on your handsome mug of A&W! Posted by: Jamie at June 14, 2005 6:07 PM 
Posted by: Jamie at June 14, 2005 6:08 PM
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, Shimmer, ChiZine, FutureQuake, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.  
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