R. D. Denton is a writer of novel-length fiction, short fiction, and the occasional poem. He was born in 1982 in Baltimore, Maryland. He has a degree in English literature from Towson University and traveled extensively while in college, presenting undergraduate research on various written works during national conferences. His past publications include low-profile fiction and poetry journals as well as several academic journals.
R.D. admitted to a lifelong love-affair with English after a sloppy and traumatic divorce from mathematics. In the past he played keyboards in a performance-art electronic band. His other interests include action-figure collecting, Civil War reenactment, and 80s music (all of which he recognizes don’t make him eligible for “Coolest Guy of the Year” by any stretch of the imagination).
When he’s not writing, R.D. enjoys crying at movies and Kay Jeweler Christmas commercials, playing retro video games, drinking dirty oil, and eating dinosaur bones. He currently resides with his girlfriend Katie, his brother, and a particularly stuck-up Blue Point Siamese cat named Tinkerbell.
The Action Prose was the name of my original blog, which lasted for about a year and contained less writing talk and more offensive and unforgiving material. The name, however, still sticks. One of my favorite things to do at a bookstore is to browse through the science fiction/fantasy sections and pull random books off the shelves. The first thing I look for isn’t the title of the book, isn’t even the name of the author, but instead how unbelievably ridiculous and badass the action pose on the front of the book is.
The action pose is important to me. It’s an embodiment of both the seriousness and the fun contained in science fiction/fantasy genre fiction. I’m more prone to buy fantasy books where the heroes (who usually aren’t accurately represented on the cover) look like members of Manowar; I like science fiction books whereupon the characters are painted disproportionately and the lasers look ineffective.
While artists like Brom do a great job bringing darkness, gravity, and realism to the art on the front of books…there’s still nothing better than that laughable action pose.
