Douglas Youngs

Where do I come from and when, now that I'll bet is a good place to start a BIO and mine started in southwest New Mexico in 1952. Some people where I live now think that makes me a foreigner because they don't understand that old Mexico and New Mexico are not the same place. But then some people think we still have Indian raids and the US Cavalry out there keeping the peace. As a state, it is the one with the best Mexican food, which is my favorite, and the most moderate climate.

I didn't attend college until the 90's which made me a freshman in my 40's. I actually didn't intend to go to college and thought of it as a waste of time but a friend suggested it because I had a love for writing and was at the time trying to get published for the first time. She thought I might benefit from some writing classes, I discovered that I liked the atmosphere, had a lot of opportunities to write and in 1997 I graduated from Western New Mexico University in Silver City, New Mexico. The book I was trying to get published at the time is still unpublished, a medieval fantasy called The Infinity Box.

In 2001 I moved to Nebraska and a lot changed for me. In my childhood, comic books had the primary focus of my attention but by the 70's I kind of wandered away and it was that way till I came to rest here in the land of corn fields. You night think that an endless flat covered with farm land would be boring but I found it inspiring, as I did new friends and among these friends was that comic book hero interest again. I started writing stories about established comic book heroes that could have never been published but it was fun. It was so much fun, in fact that creating an entire world of such heroes is where I am now, and on April 1st of 2014 I published a 2 book set, The Regulators: Hell On Earth Parts One and Two.

The thing about publishing the books was I had waited a long time to get there, and I had very little money and couldn't afford to hire an editor. As a result the books didn't do well, but I learned a great deal about the business. Along the way I got lucky and met someone who has been a writer for a while and worked as an editor on his own and it was one of the great accidents of my 62 years on Earth. I still have things to learn, and there is so much involved in writing and getting published, and then the promotions. Its tough, but its exciting, a very huge thrill. That was what it was like holding my first published work in my hands. Since then I have published a book of short stories titled Safe In My Imagination, and I have now released revised editions of Hell On Earth

Currently I am about a month away from releasing a third Regulators book, The Regulators II: Out Of Time, Part One, and later this year, part two of that story as well as a couple of books I wrote back in my college days.

My goal, over all, is to one day I'll sit down in a theater with the friends who helped me create the Regulators characters and watch a Regulators movie up there on the big screen That is my goal, and why I write, for the thrill of what can be.

Writer, that's the job I want to have and keep, its an adventure without all of the aches and pains adventuring can bring