Roger Blake

Roger Blake (a.k.a. Dodger Lensfogger) started writing the earliest of these stories, How the World I Saved, over 35 years ago in 1988. He remembers typing away on his word processor in the converted loft of an old railroad depot. Dust would shake off the rafters covering him and his work every time a train rumbled through. Some stories were conceived in the sleeping compartments of semi-trucks as he crisscrossed the country during the late 1990s through 2005.

Blake’s life has been a pursuit of creativity wherever he could find it. Another apt description would be “a tattered masterpiece of jobs and careers that should have worked but never did.” His careers have included flying in the Navy, commercial real estate and truck driving – all interspersed with periods when he dropped out to survive doing other things – like being a waiter, jeep tour driver, cabbie, bartender, inn keeper, gallery owner, car salesman, photographer and artist. None of his many, many jobs ever compared to the passion and fulfillment that he receives from art and writing.