Birthday
January 27 1950
About Me
Vance became Vinnie because of one of his past coworkers decided that a new moniker was necessary. This coworker said his father had a Hereford bull that had a few characteristics in common with me: referring to the bull’s stubborn tendencies; referred to as having a “hard head”. The bulls name was Vindicator, and so Vance became Vinnie. Writing is my passion and my life now that I've retired.
Type of Writer
Creative at the next level. I'm writing stories about the people
Writing Style
Biographical in a fictional sense. I write about real people with real problems in a real world.With a little twist.
Interests
Right now I'm kind of a survivalist type person; permaculture and the like. I also I grow tomatoes for the local Farmers Market and write a thing called Vinnie's Place, where I deal with the problems of growing things on the High Desert.
Website / Homepage
Vinnie's Place
My Blog
Vinnie's Place
Group Memberships
None - yet.
Favorite Genres
Creative Nonfiction, Biographical, Psychological Fiction & non-fiction.Adult Humor (Meaning mature not lewd). Adventure
Favorite Books
Sometimes a Great Notion, Cold Mountain, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Tracks, Moby Dick, Ship of Fools, Burr, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, For Whom the Bell Tolls, March, Little Women, Frankenstein, Dracula, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,
Favorite Authors
It’s been Hugo, Dickens, Melville, Walker, Rap Brown, Kesey, Castaneda, King, Miller and Watson, Lee, Erdrich, Portis, O’Connel, Lomax and Capote; it’s been Faulkner, McCarthy, Aukai Collins, everything Deepac Chopera wrote, to name just a few.
Favorite Poets
Service, Lawrence, Hugh Prather, Dryden, O'Connor
Favorite Quote
“Did you hear that guy? He wrapped himself in the flag, quoted from the Bible and the Constitution… didn’t take every long for him to do it either… I thought he was trying to sell after shave lotion”. Charlie Tom, Elko County Jail,2010
Favorite Music
I graduated from High School in 1969, so that’s going to give you some idea. Woodstock. Dylan and Guthrie (Arlo) or course. I saw the Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Airplane in Golden State Park, for free. How about Long John Baldry