Peter’s writing
fiction and poetry | csr blog posts | technical articles | radio broadcasts | sports articles
I’ve been writing stories since I was eight years old. My first self-published book was launched in 5th grade, with a total print run of one copy. I still have that copy, plus several others.
Author Press Kit
Please contact me for an author press kit including bio, author Q & A, head shot, and reference links.
Novels
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Lifelike Picture a girl who might kill you with her paintbrush. |
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Semper Volume 1 in the New Eden post-apocalyptic trilogy. |
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Forsada Volume 2 in the New Eden post-apocalyptic trilogy. |
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Freda Volume 3 in the New Eden post-apocalyptic trilogy. |
Fiction and Poetry
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The Written Across the Genres Anthology Fifty-Fifty is a short story of a woman escaping a bad situation, deciding whether to get into another. An excerpt of Semper is also in this anthology. |
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The Extinct Doesn’t Mean Forever Anthology (out of print) Distractions is a humorous short story of a couple who is reminded of what’s really important while on holiday. |
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The Facing The Sun Anthology I have two poems in this anthology, Connections and Finding Contentment. The anthology raises money to help a dear writer friend who has suffered high medical costs due to health problems. |
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Thereby Hangs a Tale This journal lasted only two issues but had some really awesome work in it. My story, Golden Advice, is an embellished true vignette of some good advice I got when I went off to college (the issue’s theme was “expatriate”). |
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The First Line This journal provides the first line; my story, Saved, is about a young person’s depression following a tragic loss. |
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THEMA This journal provides a theme on which all submissions must be based. My story, Joseph’s Mother, is about a doomed love discovered under the worst of circumstances. |
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Caesura I have one humorous poem in this journal on the theme of superstition. |
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The 2009 San Francisco Writers Conference Anthology My story in this anthology, Thirty-Five Across, is about a second chance. |
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The 2010 San Francisco Writers Conference Anthology (out of print) I have a humorous poem in this anthology. |
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Much light verse on my old blog |
In addition, I won the January, 2009 flash fiction contest at the Clarity of Night blog, was selected Readers’ Choice in the July, 2009 flash fiction contest at the same blog, and had a third story selected for mention in a ByLine Magazine contest.
CSR Blog Posts
I’ve written a number of CSR blog posts for the Charities@Work blog, some of which were run on CSR Wire’s TalkBack feature.
- Five Truths About Running An Online Auction
- Remembering The Value of Volunteerism
- Workplace Giving, Beyond The Numbers
- Five Truths About Running An Online Auction
- Measuring Employee Community Involvement
- Modernizing Workplace Giving Because Millennials Want Us To
- Employee Engagement: From Buzzwords to Business Goals
- What Does It Take to Get Managers on Board to Support Employee Volunteering?
- Do Recognition Programs Really Incentivize Employees to Give or Volunteer? How Can We Know?
- Workplace Giving, Beyond The Numbers
Technical and Professional Articles
My technical articles have appeared in the following publications.
[ read all the articles here ]
- EE Times
- Multimedia Systems Design
- Embedded Systems Development
Radio Broadcasts
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In college, I worked at KALX radio news, holding every job in the newsroom at some time including reporter, anchor, engineer, and producer. Once I did all four jobs myself when I was the only person to show up for a morning newscast. I also covered local Berkeley city elections live on location. [ listen to sound checks and see photos ] |
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Sports Articles (mostly humorous)
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I wrote a college football column for two years at a Cal fan site, which was later acquired by Scout.com. [ read the articles ] |
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