Reid Hull, 41

I grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. I graduated from Dimond High School in 2003 and got a job at a movie theater, where I worked for a few years until getting a job at a local candy store. I became the manager and worked there for several years. After it closed, I started working for the owner of the candy store’s husband who was the manager at a local Gun Shop that is a bit of a landmark and institution, which has been operating at the same location since 1968.

After working there for a year or two, I started going to college, deciding I wanted more out of my life. It took a few years of night school but I graduated summa cum laude with an associate’s degree in general education that I haven’t used for anything really but it broadened my education, and I was introduced in a media literacy class to the idea of how easy it is to self-publish these days. That inspired me to actually take my writing seriously.

I never really built writing habits or finished anything, not since short stories as a kid. But with the inspiration of knowing that finding readers was in my grasp, I started working on a fictional universe that has many ideas and permutations that resulted in my novel Out On the Edge, years later.

I got a job at Petco briefly, as the original owners of the gun shop were getting into their eighties. I worked there, but the management was terrible and I quit. The pandemic was still in full swing at that time, and I didn’t get another full-time job until the next year, when new owners bought the gun shop and invited me back.

And that’s me. I still live in Anchorage, Alaska, with my beautiful wife, Sarah, and our three cats, Buddy, Gunner, and Mischief. I have a couple of gaming nights where I run a D&D game that’s been going for 5 years, and another that just started. I also have a scheduled writing night once a week. I go on hikes and trips with my lovely wife, I play video games, and critique movies. I am a creator, a gamer, and an adventurer.