"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
-H.L. Mencken

Bio

M.E. Parker is a closet antiquarian posing as a technophile, who savors the smell, texture, and weight of books on shelves, all the while enjoying the convenience of the digital world--a writer, a reader, web designer, and a carpenter who imagines a world of wooden computers with leather bound keyboards. His telescope is always aimed into the furthest reaches of space enabling him to view through his lens that which might be there instead of that which he cannot see. He is a fiction writer with a background in physics, and in spite of this, or, in fact, because of this, he maintains an unquenchable appreciation for art in all (many of) its permutations.

At one of the myriad intersections of prose and visual arts, he edits the Camera Obscura Journal of Literature & Photography. M.E. Parker's short fiction has recently surfaced or is scheduled to see daylight in numerous print publications and Internet haunts. His story "My Marrakech" recently won the 2010 Midnight Sun fiction contest.

M.E. Parker has also endeavored to couple his love for the Great American road trip with his soft spot for the environment by developing a working (though unfortunately impractical) prototype of a non-electric, zero-emission vehicle.

Resources for Writers

Newpages.com -Anything related to the small press
Duotrope -Comprehensive list of fiction markets
Agent Query-Looking for an agent? Full of great resources on publishing and writing.
Preditors and Editors-where to find out whether that agent you found is reputable.
Bartleby -A bottomless pit of online reference books
Common Errors in English-always helpful
The Phrontistery -Repository for obscure, rare, and lost words

Contact

Mitch E. Parker meparker @ meparker.com

©photo by Kate Parker Photography

Twitter - @meparker1

Representation:

Elizabeth Kracht
Kimberley Cameron & Associates
1550 Tiburon Blvd #704
Tiburon, CA 94920
(415) 789-9191

"A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay