Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 12:30:42 -0300 From: Laurier Ctti Organization: Relecture Subject: INTRO: hello again! I forgot to reintroduce myself. Thanks for those who sent me gentle private messages for my return. And hi Tink! Hi Robyn! who probably didn't read my last post here asking if (she?) (I hope I'm not wrong with this) was still writing those good sf stories that (she?) was writing 4 years ago and if she published any. (By the way I just sold my first short story in English). Anyway here is my bio or whatever you would call it: My name is Laurier C=F4t=E9, I'm a writer, freelance journalist and editor of a regional magazine. First, let me tell you right now that english is a second language for me so... I'm doing my best. Have fun about my spelling or whatever, I don't care. Try to write as good in french as I do in english and we will be on same grounds and laugh together. J I won't answer to any stupid question on any political bullshit on cultural differences between canadians and americans or even martians (among many other things, we all live and die and that's a fact) or will answer on this list or privately to questions on what is it to be a French Canadian writer living in the province of Quebec who will eventually separate herself from Canada, etc... I'm a writer, not a politician. I don't want to start anything with Canadians writers here or anglophone writers from Quebec or from anywhere. Anyway, at 44 I'm not a kid anymore and I have a good sense of humor but I hate stupidity. Some are working real hard to earn a living out of writing and I'm one of them. So I'm a French Canadian published writer (5 books already published in french, and 3 of those books have been published with a very serious publisher who is in business for more than 50 years now) and I have someone actually translating my work in English. I gave up trying to directly write in English, (but I wrote some of them) and I think I'll never master this language enough to build novels or short stories with interesting structured sentences and as good vocabulary, as I do in French. So I wrote and published short stories and few novels (2 more novels are actually in serious progress) science fiction shorts stories, fantasy shorts stories, an historical thriller, etc... I won't post very much here because I'm very busy, but I'll read what will be of some interest for me and flush what's not. In addition to my creative writing, as editor of this little magazine out here, It gives me enough to put some butter on my bread and that's all I need (not going for any BMW...), I mean me, and my family (my wife Mona-Lisha and 2 teenagers). I'm also occasionally doing papers for local newspapers, as a freelance journalist (in french and in english). Lot a work for few dollars but it keeps me in the action and let me have few hours away from my computer. I'm working home and when I look through my windows in my office, at my left I got the mountains of the Forillon national Park and when I look in front of me at 45 degree to my right I see what we call here the ocean. It's the St-Laurent Golf that is so large, in front of the Gaspesian peninsula that we call it 'sea'. Anticosti Island is the first thing you can encounter, by boat, at more than 80 miles in front of my backyard. The place I live is called Anse-au-Griffon (probably because 300 years ago someone saw the bald eagles that are still in our region and called them 'Griffon', an old french word for a mythological beast, half bird and half lion, and the name stayed for this place). I can't live without writing, it's my oxygen and I become really grumpy when I have to be away from it for too long (a couple of days!). I read a lot in french and in english. So, that's about it! For those of you who would want to know why it's 'wolfy' on my email address it's because 4 years ago I moved and lost my internet address, my nickname was Wolf and when I came back 'Wolf' was not available anymore so I took 'Wolfy'. My few friends are calling me 'Wolf' for 30 years now, because I usually don't like to be with too much people around, I love to be alone, and because when I was younger I was going out only on full moon (that's what they say!) and because I'm faithful and protective for my family and my few friends and can be dangerous (but only when one attacks me or my relatives). I am a very peaceful and cool guy and with my 240 pounds and 6 feet tall, people don't fool around with me, they don't usually want it. J Cybernetically yours, Laurier C=F4t=E9, writer.