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Started writing when I first quit drinking back in 1986. For the next six years I filled 18 three inch binders with journals, stories, and poetry. All of this work, sat idle, when in 1992, I decided I didn't have a drinking problem. By 1994, I accepted that I was indeed an alcoholic-addict. Once again being sober, my writings resumed. From 1997 to 2004, I wrote short stories, poetry, and editorials for our local newspaper, The Beatrice Daily-Sun. By April of 2004, a contract was signed with PublishAmerica for my book, Damaged Merchandise; Poems and Stories of an Alcoholic Addict. In October of 2004, work on my second book War Zone, Backing Out of Hell was finished. War Zone is the prequel to Damaged Merchandise and was release on 2/6/06. Presently a third book is being written, which will be a prequel to War Zone and will complete this trilogy.
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1976 - go to Yankton College in Yankton, SD
1978 - drop out
1980 - start dealing drugs
1982 - homeless, hitch-hike around the country
1983 - end up in Alma, NE rejoin the working world
1985 - move to Seward, NE
1986 - quit drinking and doing drugs
1987-89 - Village Board of Trustees - Tamora (NE)
1989-91 - Bishops Committee, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church - Seward (NE)
1992 - return to drinking
1994 - second time - quit drinking
1994-96 - Board of Trustees, St. John's Lutheran Church - Seward (NE)
1996 - leave Seward area, move to Diller (NE)
1997 - first poem published - Scars That Never Heal
2000 - start writing poems about cancer
2003 - raise $1,400 for the American Cancer Society - writes Day One
2004 - nominated for the Marquis Who's Who In America
2004 - book - Damaged Merchandise is published
2005 - listed on the Nebraska Center For Writers website
2005 - poem A Thousand Times turned into a song
2005 - listed on government website for "voices in recovery."
2005 - become editor of a weekly poetry column - The Poets Quill
2005 - book - War Zone gets published
2005 - poem Men (And Women) of Closter part of Closter's (NJ) Veterans Day program
2006 - listed on government website, pamphlets, brochures, and informational material for "voices in recovery"
2006 - listed on Prestigage International Who's Who Registry For Outstanding Professionals
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Everything I write is honest and truthful. It has become my outlet to search my soul and correct my wrongs. My life is based on the belief, that all dreams can come true. We need to live in the real world, but we should never forget our dreams. 10% of my royalties from Damaged Merchandise will go to the University of Nebraska-Omaha's Lied Transplant Center, in honor of my granddaughter, Jaycie, who at the tender age of eight months received the gift of life, a new liver.
My addictions have lead me to homelessness, eating out of dumpsters. I've had the unique privilege of hitch-hiking the United States, coast-to-coast, using I-80 as my "main road."
I've been involved in the nursery business, a bartender, security guard, truck driver, bakery scaler, maintenance manager, shipping and receiving manager, salesman at a major retail store as well as a pet shop. And many other jobs along the way. Now, I can add "writer" to this list...
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www.daveharm.com - my information hub, links to all my writings and stories. The subsite Celebrating Life - shows previously unreleased works in poetry and short stories. Also included is a sitemap, to quickly find all my writings on the web...
www.authorsden.com/daveharm - reviews from around the world. From books, stories, or articles, it can be found here...
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/NCW/harm.htm - Creighton University's Nebraska Center For Writers |
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www.daveharm.com/blog
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