Everybody loves a list, so here's my bio; some things about me in a list. All these list things are true, though of course some are more true than others. I’ve assessed them like (this).
* I started my first novel when I was 14. (This is true but boring.)
* I love dogs and I've always had dogs, but these days we have a bird. (This is true. And strange. Birds are like anti-dogs; they’re unpredictable, super smart, and fly.)
* I grew up in the Sierra Nevada mountains. (This is true. It was beautiful.)
* I'm fluent in Lua. (This is less true than it used to be.)
* I have a website and a mailing list. (True, though probably also boring. Decided for yourself: www.kevinhincker.com)
* I've started three different tech companies, which is how I discovered I'm bad at it. (This is true and not true—I’m actually good at starting them. It’s the other parts.)
* Our bird will outlive me. (Statistically speaking true.)
* I prefer tequila to mezcal because it tastes more predictable. (True. In this as in many parts of my life, I need predictable outcomes to foster writing. This makes me boring to go on vacations with, unless you're reading one of my books, which, whatever else can be said about them, will not bore you on vacations.)
* I have a humanities degree. (True almost by accident.)
* The only time I've ever thrown up while bowling was because of tequila. (True. I classify bowling as a drinking game, similar to quarters.)
* I have a magic-adjacent belief that problems will fix themselves if I ignore them. (True. I try not to fix what isn’t broken, and I err on the side of optimism and patience, because I’m naturally optimistic and also lazy.)
* When my wife met me I was living in my Westfalia. (True and very romantic.)
* I live in a house now, in LA, with my wife and our son and our long lived bird. (True. It’s a great place to live and they’re great people and a bird to live with. I’m lucky.)
* In novels I like characters with flaws, and I like stakes that have been built, not bought. (So very, very true.)
* I follow research in senolytics. (Less true than it used to be, but I still check in.)
* I'm attracted to fiction readers. Honestly, they're just sexier than other people. (True. Check yourself out in the mirror. You know what I’m talking about.)
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