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Writing, travel, Scandinavia, languages, music, iguanas, world domination.
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..A good friend of mine once told me, "Be your own hero." But I secretly aspire to be more like Eric Cartman.
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I've been traveling internationally nearly all of my life, and trying not to make a mess of things. This has all culminated in the publication of my first book, Getting Lost: Mishaps of an Accidental Nomad, which won the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Book Proposal Contest in 2004, and was published by AuthorHouse books in 2006. The book is based on my philosophy, "When you travel, things go wrong," and the fact that those things that go haywire usually make for our funniest stories. You can order the book or read free sample chapters on my website.
I just recently signed a deal with Inkwater Press to write a second book, about how to write more vivid and exciting travel journals. That book is scheduled for publication in the summer of 2007.
I also work as a freelance public speaker, giving humorous and/or informative talks on culture shock, travel journaling, Scandinavia and a variety of other topics, and I offer one-on-one coaching for people who want to improve their writing.
From the back cover of my book:
"When you travel, things go wrong."
That might not sound like uplifting advice, but in this hilarious collection of stories about mishaps in faraway places, award-winning humorist Dave Fox proves otherwise.
At age eight, Dave moves to England and nearly starts a riot in Northern Africa. As a nerdy teenager, he smuggles illegal radio equipment into Finland on his way to spending a year in Norway. In his college days, he discovers it is not wise to seek inner peace inside an Icelandic volcano, and he thwarts the Italian Mafia, only to find himself surrounded by machine gun-toting cops in Greece. A few years later, he does something exceptionally reckless. He becomes a professional tour guide.
Whether he’s chasing down runaway sheep in Ireland, munching antibiotics in Turkey, interviewing drunken nomads above the Arctic Circle, or helping diffuse knife fights in the Vatican, Dave travels knowing that when things go wrong, they might not seem fun at the time, but the resulting stories are worth the chaos.
Getting Lost: Mishaps of an Accidental Nomad spans 30 years of adventures and misadventures overseas, from Dave’s year as a British school boy, to his teenage days as a foreign exchange student, to his so-called "adult life" as a professional traveler. He weaves together tales both poignant and funny in this memoir of a travel-obsessed geek.
"Dave Fox's writing is hilarious.... It's rare to find a person who has such unique stories to tell and can write about them to boot."
--Tim Bete, Director of the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop
..Read free sample chapters or order the book..
..Who I'd like to meet:
Hmmm... I've already met Dave Barry and the Princess of Norway this year. Do I get more than that? I'd like to buy Barack Obama a beer. I also wouldn't mind getting a haircut and chatting with a barber in, oh, maybe Tajikistan or Greenland or Kentucky.I generally like people, as long as they don't poke me in the eye. People who poke me in the eye make me cranky.
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- Status: In a Relationship
- Here for: Networking, Friends
- Hometown: Seattle, WA
- Religion: Taoist
- Zodiac Sign: Libra
- Children: I don't want kids
- Smoke / Drink: No / Yes
- Education: College graduate
- Occupation: Author / Editor / Public Speaker
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University of Oslo
- Oslo, Norway
- Graduated: N/A
- Student status: Alumni
- Major: Norwegian Linguistics
- Clubs: International Student Association
1991 to 1992 -
University Of Wisconsin-Madison
- Madison,Wisconsin
- Graduated: 1991
- Degree: Bachelor's Degree
- Major: Journalism
- Minor: Scandinavian Studies
- Clubs: Badger Herald, WLHA Radio
1987 to 1991
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Art Attack Online
Always looking for artists and writers to contribute to The Roadhead Journal. Also, want to invite you to subcribe and enjoy the ride and the read in the Myspace Roadhead Blog
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The Roadhead Journal is now locked and loaded. Featured video this month is "Josephine Baker - The Banana Dance" proving the Josephine is a cabaret old chum and chumettes
Also featured writers are Michael Madsen, Sandoz Diego Cerveza, Frank O. Gutch, Eva Pasco, and art, art, art!
If you are an artist or writer and want to contribute to the journal, fire an email warning shot over my head at theroadhead@yahoo.com
The Roadhead Journal
Online Magazine of Art, Anarchy, Literature, and Pop Culture Dumpster Diving
Roadhead Journal - Enter
This compendium of illiterations, art, literature and journalism is a compost pile of fermenting illiterati to toss onto the garden of your imagination to further fertilize it to yield a bounty of ideas and free thought. It breaks rules as it does not recognize good grammer in some instances as the final authority over random thought. The words and art herein hopefully fall from an imaginary pinata as delightful and delicious candy
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Hope you are SURVIVING these crazy economic times! Enjoy our new video "Whiskey Tonight" and stop by our site for a FREE download of the new song. Yes, something for FREE. Cheers!
Happy New Year... Stop by for a FREE download of "Whiskey Tonight", our first release in 2009 from the band's upcoming 7th CD - "Whiskey Tonight". The new song hits home with the same good time impact expected of an Indulger's song, heralding a return to our "rockin' irish pub sound". * * Stop by for your FREE download of the new song and all the best to you in 2009!
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Happy birthday Dave. Have a great day
Thanks for the add. I'm a new Harper Perennial author, reaching out to some of Harper Perennial’s book-loving friends.
BEING WRITTEN is my first novel, and it will be released on September 9. It’s the story of a man who knows he’s a minor character in a book and the lengths to which he’ll go to win a bigger part.
You can find out more about the novel in this one-minute video, on my MySpace profile, and at www. williamconescu. com. Thanks again!
- William