I produce, perform, and publish original media content for your inspiration, motivation, and entertainment; and I offer production assistance services and consulting for clients, students, and a few close friends.
Producing, performing, and publishing books and multimedia content; and assisting and instructing others in the art: is what I do. This is what I’ve always done. It’s what I love doing. It’s an expression of who I am. And if you’re reading this, then it’s probably because you can relate. Are multimedia production and performance an expression of who you are, too? It’s time to embrace it! I hope you’ll join me, and together we’ll celebrate the joys of the creative process.
Need help seeing your project through to completion? Have an idea that you haven’t quite managed to turn into a reality yet? Let’s talk! Here’s an overview of my experience and some of the areas where I may be able to assist you.
Author, Editor, Small Press Publisher
- Stories, essays, and poetry to inspire, to entertain, and to make you think
- More than a dozen books in a variety of genres, under my own name and various pen names.
- Categories include self-help, speculative fiction, poetry, satire, and thriller
- Top three titles to date are Start Today, The Battle of Hillsboro, and Choosing Change (as Titus Naso)
- The week of its release, Start Today was listed as one of the bestselling books in the “Spiritual Self-Help” category on Amazon
- Published through Tomis Press
- Start Today (self-help) and the Titus Naso poetry series (Choosing Change, A Year Outside of Time, Months and Days, The Histories, and A Different Thousand and One Nights) as well as the fillable Challenge Journal.
- Published through Basementia Publications
- Rise of the Pagans (modern culture, spiritual awakening, coming of age dramatic literature), The Battle of Hillsboro (heist adventure), The Gompa Oasis (humorous speculative science fiction featuring post-apocalyptic desert nomads), Principles for a Self-Directed Society (political philosophy circa 2008), The Reality Game and the Little Black Box (psychological thriller), and The Overlords of Tlegryth (comic fantasy with a wizard and a dragon)
- all currently available in print through all of the major online book selling platforms.
- Most of the above titles are also available as Amazon e-books.
- Categories include self-help, speculative fiction, poetry, satire, and thriller
- Client publishing: text editing, book layout and design, prepress setup, and publication and/or book manufacturing for 3 additional titles on behalf of clients
- Have you written a book that you want help releasing to the world? Alternatively, do you have an idea for a memoir but you need some help putting it all together? Let’s talk!
Video Production and Film Production Assistance
- Screenplay writer, actor, and Executive Producer of the comic short film Curb Thy Vanity, directed by Anna Gillock
- filmed in summer 2024
- began submitting this title to local film competitions in late 2025, stay tuned for updates!
- First Assistant Director for the February 2025 “proof of concept” filming of Hell’D, directed by Matthew D. May
- Second Second Assistant Director for the October 2023 filming of LifeCycle 63 by Ambition Pictures, directed by Phillip Wade
- Online video content
- motivation, inspiration, and self-help content
- music videos
- including original songs Soapbox, Faceless Man, and I Play A Hero On TV, as well as a low-budget cover of Monty Python’s Galaxy Song
- marketing and web design
- these videos have my highest view count to date
- “The Death of Sir Gawain,” a reading from the Middle English Morte Arthure
- was the video with my second-highest view count for a long time… until that new “beard shave” one took off
- relaxing videos of nature scenes
- posted a YouTube video each week, every week for a year, beginning in February 2021
- most of my self-help video content dates from this period
- motivational #workoutthoughts videos on LinkedIn
- and more!
- Stop motion animation and special effects (in the past)
- Teaching assistant for week-long stop motion animation summer classes at OMSI
- Experimental and early projects involving claymation and animated models
- Computer animations using both keyframe-based graphical interfaces and also code-based animation scripting
Musician, Music Producer, Music Instructor
- New albums by Flumergex
- Synthetic
- Broken Pieces
- Pagan Yuletide Carols, Vol. 1
- Electronica-flavored Alternative Rock with a startling variety of stylistic influences
- “Merge within a state of Flux: Flumergex“
- released 3 albums in 12 months from early 2024 to early 2025
- currently available through all major streaming and digital download platforms when you search for Flumergex
- Released through Basementia Records
- Currently available on all major streaming and digital download platforms!
- Search them up and give them a listen!
- Wrote all music and lyrics for the original songs
- Tastefully selected cover songs include The Sounds of Silence and Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire
- Performed, produced, engineered, and mixed all the sound recordings
- Performance including vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards and synthesizers, drums and drum machine programming, and percussion
- Music instructor
- have taught individual and group lessons
- guitar, drums, keyboards, and voice
- performance and theory
- for over a year at Soundstream Music in Silverton, Oregon
- for a year overseas at Futures American School in a suburb of Cairo, Egypt
- someday I will publish my travelogue from that amazing and life-changing year
- have taught individual and group lessons
- Older albums
- Flumergex Emerges, This One, the double-album Barnlife, and a limited release titled The Lost Minute were released on CD in an earlier era
- Live musical performances
- most recently at Soundstream events in Silverton
- Back in the day:
- with T. Ray and the Shades, Operation J, The Plushies, The Burners, Flumergex (featuring Jon Rigby and Andy Hoke), The Mushtones, Sweet Dreams, Motasm, and as a solo artist
Work With Me
I’m here to help you realize your creative vision.
From book publishing and editing; to film, video, and online content: I look forward to helping you make your concept a reality.
(As many of you know, I used to build client websites, too, for more than fifteen years; but after some soul-searching I have allowed that aspect of my career to fall by the wayside, so I’m no longer promoting that aspect of my CV in this context.)
Be the best version of yourself! It’s a choice we make, every moment of every day. Whatever happened in the past, you can choose to be a better you, starting now.
Wishing you all the best. Have a most excellent day.
