Did I mention that I'm also an aspiring science fiction writer?

Due to the problems that the Military has been having with mil-blogs lately, my chain of command is forced to take a keen interest in Graham's Journal. My commander is going to check my blog to make sure that I haven't violated OPSEC. I'm pretty sure that I haven't posted anything I wasn't supposed to. But just to be sure, I'm not going to talk about Iraq today.

In case you haven't noticed the big-ass image link in the right column, I have another blogspot website that contains the entirety of my first science fiction book, The Seventh Day, an end-times novel. If you click over there, you can read my novel for free. The copyright is licensed under the Creative Commons License.

I've always wanted to be a writer, even when I was in elementary school. In late 2002, I decided that I was going to go for it and write an entire novel, no procrastination, no quitting. I finished it late 2004 and made a few half-assed attempts to get the interest of a publisher before I was shipped out to Kuwait in January 2005.

I was going to wait until I returned to the States to try to sell my book for professional publication. But I soon realized that waiting wasn't going to work for me because one, I'm impatient, and two, let's be honest, there's a small chance I won't make it back. So I decided to self publish. I published over the internet, and also through Cafe Press, which allows authors to sell copies of their book on the cafepress.com website. The books they make through POD (print on demand) technology are pretty high quality.

The Seventh Day is an exciting techno-thriller that takes place in the year 2030, in a future world that's quickly being changed by biotech, nanotech, and artificial intelligence technology. I've called my book, "an end-times novel" because it is also about The Apocalypse.

If this sounds interesting to you, then I hope you check it out. You can download the book as a .pdf or .rtf file.

Milblog fans may be disappointed. I conceived this book before I even joined the Army. So it has nothing to do with war. But I already have a lot of ideas rolling around my head for my next book. When I get home, I plan to start writing my second novel, which will be military science fiction!