Gary Corbin

Gary Corbin

Gary is a novelist, actor, and playwright in Camas, WA, a suburb of Portland, OR. In addition to his 11 novels, his shorter creative and journalistic work has been published in BrainstormNW, the Portland Tribune, The Oregonian, and Global Envision, among others. Gary earned his B.A. in Political Science and Economics at Louisiana State University (Geaux Tigers!) and his Ph.D. at Indiana University (Go Hoosiers!), writing his dissertation on the politics of acid rain (1988). He worked on farms, construction, and in food service jobs to earn his way through, so he knows the meaning of hard work. He interned with Argonne National Laboratory on assignment in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Analysis before joining the consulting firm of Applied Management Sciences in Silver Spring, MD. He moved to Highland Technologies, Inc., specialists in document image management systems, managing projects and developing Oracle database systems before moving to Portland to work for the City of Portland. After twelve years with the City, he founded Gary Corbin Writing. Gary is a member of PDX Playwrights, the Portland Area Theater Alliance, the Willamette Writers Group and the North Bank Writers Workshop, and participates in workshops and conferences in the Portland, Oregon area. A homebrewer as well as a maker of wine, mead, cider, and soft drink, Gary is a member of the Oregon Brew Crew and a BJCP National Beer Judge. He loves to ski, cook, and garden, and hopes someday to train his dogs to obey.
  • Joined: August 26, 2015
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The World According to Gil

In my forthcoming police procedural novel, A Woman of Valor, the main character (Valorie) gets trained by an older, more experienced officer, Sergeant Gil Krysinski. Among other things, Gil explains to Val what he considers to be the “Four Types…

Lying in Vengeance now on audio!

The second of my Lying Injustice Thrillers is now out on audio! Lying in Vengeance was released in late March to audiobook retailers and is already available for purchase or download on multiple channels, including iTunes, Nook (Barnes & Noble),…

Are you a reader or a listener?

It’s probably no secret to most that the current hot trend in book publishing lately is audio. Audio is the fastest-growing (some say “only” growing) segment of the book publishing industry right now. There are several reasons for this trend:…

Vote for “Cover of the Month” – Final Round!

Thanks to readers (and voters) like you, Lying in Vengeance has made it to the fourth and final round of the AllAuthor.com September “Cover of the Month” competition. Only the top 50 graduated to the third stage of the competition,…

Lying in Vengeance could be Cover of the Month!

My book, Lying in Vengeance, is vying for “Book Cover of the Month” on Allauthor.com. Being selected “Best Cover” would be a huge honor and would help boost visibility of this book, one I’m very proud of and worked very…

Plotters, Pantsers, and Painters

Plotters vs. Pantsers The writing world likes to divide itself into two groups: “plotters” and “pantsers.” Plotters are writers who plan their creative work in great detail before they write. They prepare and revise plot outlines, character sketches, locations, etc.…

Publication assistance

Gary loves to help writers get their work published. Having self-published several of his own novels and a writing guide, he has also advised others successfully down the publishing path, such as Nancy Barnett. Self-publishing is a confusing, quickly-changing, and…

NaNoReMar: NaNoWriMo’s Re-Do-o-rama

Do you do the #NaNoWriMo? For the uninitiated, that’s a Pentagon-style acronym for National Novel Writing Month, a sort of online writing challlenge-slash-support-group for ambitious authors who want to slam out their first (or next) novel. Personally, I never have,…