David R. Packer

I've been a welder, a bridgeman, a bouncer, a unix network administrator, an early and folk music specialist, a warehouse monkey, and a professional teacher of historical swordplay.

I pretty much grew up in movie theatres, in small towns throughout BC and Alberta. My dad was a projectionist, so we got to see all the movies for free...and I saw all of them. When I wasn't in a theatre, I was in a library, or curled up at home with a book. Stories are my life. This didn't translate to the best grades in school. Nothing in class could really keep my attention as well as my imagination. This left me a bit adrift after high school, so I've wound up working many different kinds of jobs. I learned to enjoy the stories of the people around me almost as much as the novels and movies I kept consuming.

I currently live in a remote mountain village in BC with my spouse and two constant cats.