Timothy James Dean
I spent a decade as a boy on the savage South Pacific island of New Guinea - the setting for my novel, "TEETH - The Epic Novel With Bite." http://www.timothyjamesdean.com
I survived some fascinating, way-out-there experiences on our lovely blue-green planet - and that allows me to draw the curtains for you onto some exotic places you've probably never seen. After all, I grew up with people who literally ate their enemies!
"TEETH - The Epic Novel with Bite" is the fulfillment of a life goal. The 1st Volume of the Trilogy features the huge crocodile both feared and worshiped by the natives of the big river, "the Father." You don't have to go looking in the Jurassic for predators as scary as T. Rex! Their reptilian relative, the giant Saltwater Crocodile, still stalks our world. On a trip to Papua New Guinea, I discovered the awesome photograph that inspired my epic novel, the real "Father" (see the
picture of the real monster
below the book cover at http://www.amazon.com/dp/0982539800/?...).
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In North America, I studied Literature and Creative Writing at the graduate level, with the goal of being a novelist. But I got sidetracked into an enthralling career in television that took me all over the world. I once was Head Writer, and ultimately Executive Producer, of a prime-time TV show in a big city. But for most of my career, I have owned production studios and created international documentary and adventure programs.
Highlights of TV stories I have told you include "The Toughest Break" on spinal cord injury (PBS, Discovery Health), with the late movie actor Christopher ("Superman") Reeve. (I was the first producer to hire him after he broke his neck while riding his horse). Then there was "Return of the Dolphin" with rock star Bryan Adams (Discovery); my own trip back to New Guinea for a reunion with former cannibals (subscribe to my You Tube Channel for clips from the exotic edge of the world http://www.youtube.com/user/TimothyJD... - and "friend" me!)
I created "Thunder in the Canyon," a wild whitewater ride 600 miles down the mighty Fraser River - and I traveled the world for several years to record my adventure scuba series, "Aqua Planet."
I am the founder of "Worlders," a support group for those who grew up outside their "passport country." The wounds of such a childhood cut deep - but as you incorporate your experiences into the fabric of your life, such a beginning can be so rich! One thing I still have trouble answering - "where are you from?" My answer? "How much time do you have?" ("Like") http://www.facebook.com/pages/WORLDER...
“I was on one of my world 'walkabouts.' It had taken me once more through Hong Kong, to Japan, Australia, and then Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific [one of the places I grew up]. There I found the picture of 'the Father.' It was a real, gigantic Saltwater Crocodile (whose picture is now featured on page 1 of TEETH). From that moment, 'the Father' began to swim through the murky recesses of my mind. Imagine! I thought, men confronting the world’s largest reptile on its own turf! And what if they were stripped of their firearms, so they must face this force of nature with nothing but hand weapons and wits?We know that neither whales nor sharks hunt individual humans for weeks on end. But, Dear Reader, crocodiles do! They are intelligent predators that choose their victims and plot their attacks. So, lost on its river, how would our heroes escape a great hunter of the Father’s magnitude? And what if these modern men must also confront the headhunters and cannibals who truly roam New Guinea? What of tribal wars, the coming of Christianity and materialism (the phenomenon known as the 'Cargo Cult'), and the people’s introduction to 'civilization' in the form of world war? What of first contact between pristine tribal culture and the outside world? What about tribal clashes on a global scale—the hatred and enmity between America and Japan, from Pearl Harbor, to the only use in history of atomic weapons? And if the world could find peace at last, how about Johnny and Katsu?”