Monte Williams:  

After graduating from Oroville Adult School in 1995 (I was kicked out of Prospect), I decided on a whim to attend college, if only for a few months, and if only to keep my parents distracted and fooled until I inevitably settled into my life plan of sitting around and doing nothing. Problem was, while I had hated high school with a near-religious passion, I enjoyed my first semester of college so much that I thought I would stick with it for a while. Eight years later, I finally decided I had had enough (for now.) Now I am living in Anderson Valley, in a tiny hamlet about halfway between Santa Rosa and Fort Bragg, with Tara, my partner of nine years (no small feat in itself; I had never been with anyone for more than two months before her) and our daughter Maitea (pronounced My-Tay-Uh), who joined us on March 31, 2004. Since most anyone who is reading this no doubt consumed intoxicants of some sort or another with me at some point, it is also notable that I have been sober for ten years as of April 2006. And for almost as long, I have been struggling to write a novel. It can best be described as, "Like a Schoolhouse Rock cartoon, only pornographic." I doubt I will ever finish it, but like Richard Dreyfuss said in Mr. Holland's Opus, "I pick ...Expand for more