Alex Midwinter

Twice featured Watty winner (and you thought they had standards around here).

As an avid reader and an aspiring writer, it's great to be part of a community of millions of like-minded people.  I've met a bunch of fantastic fellow authors and received some truly invaluable advice.

I suspect most of us have a pretty decent book (or two) inside of us; the challenge is getting it out.  Well, and then getting somebody to read it.  But anyway, one challenge at a time.

"The Four Baristas of the Apocalypse" has been my primary project/challenge, and is the story that the Wattpad pixies, in their infinite wisdom (and obvious good taste) decided to feature and award a Watty.  It's complete (barring a little polishing) as of September 2018, plus - as a bit of a detour along the way - I've also written the "The Blade", which was my first foray into fantasy and wound up as a finalist in the Open Novella Contest.  Both have the potential for sequels, but we'll see what real life has to say about that.

One of the main reasons I started writing on Wattpad was to see whether I could actually complete a novel, and I have to admit to being a little gobsmacked that it's actually happened.  Even more so that people have actually read them.

With a few exceptions, my stories generally don't take themselves too seriously (real life contains more than enough serious stuff).  If you're interested, some shorter samples can be found here: -

https://www.wattpad.com/story/112758976-sci-fi-shorts