One Thing or Another Podcast #71: Author Dave Hughes on Finding His Way Into Fiction
What goes around comes around … and it’s another great interview with author, columnist, and renaissance man Dave Hughes. We’ve been friends for nearly a decade, and I’ve taken a lot of inspiration from Dave’s post-corporate-job life (I try not to use the word ‘retirement,’ since it needs to be retired!). Join me in a chat with Dave about two of his big ventures: RetireFabulously.com, and his more recent headlong dive into fiction with his ‘Gay Tales for the New Millennium‘ series, with its fifth book, Karma Train from Kansas, having just pulled into the station.
Dave Hughes has written four gay fiction novels, Maybe Next Year; Instant Adult; Open Books, Closed Sets; and If I Seem Quiet…. These are the first four books in a series of six called Gay Tales for the New Millennium. His first short story, Cruise Virgins, is available free to subscribers of his newsletter. Chronologically, it fits between Open Books, Closed Sets and If I Seem Quiet… .
In addition to fiction, Dave has written three retirement lifestyle planning books, Design Your Dream Retirement, Smooth Sailing Into Retirement,andThe Quest for Retirement Utopia.Dave created the website RetireFabulously.com, which enables readers to envision, plan for, and enjoy the best retirement possible. In addition to writing hundreds of articles for RetireFabulously.com, Dave’s writing has appeared on US News & World Report, lgbtSr.com, Medium, Yahoo! Finance, CNN/Money, Next Avenue, Tiny Buddha, and others.
Aside from his writing, Dave is also a jazz musician. He plays trombone, steel pan, and electric bass in various bands in the Phoenix area. He owns an embarrassingly large collection of jazz, Brazilian, exotica, steel band, jazz/rock, and vocal ensemble CDs and videos.
Before retiring early at age 56, Dave was a software engineer for 34 years, working for companies such as Intel Corporation, Computer Sciences Corporation, McDonnell Douglas Space Systems, and NCR Corporation. Throughout his career, his projects included software development, customer support, training, course development, and management.
Dave resides near Phoenix, Arizona with his husband Jeff and their dog Maynard.
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