A convenient series of events landed me the job of theater critic at Style Weekly. Allegedly, someone complained to Style because the guy who had the job before me wanted to be a playwright and he was bothering local theater people to read his work. So he was out and they needed a replacement pretty quick because they were covering the 2 or 3 shows that opened every week back then.
My wife had worked very hard to get a job as an editor of one of Style’s subsidiary pubs (Family Style) and wasn’t just going to ask someone there if her husband could have the job. But she could make sure the Arts Editor got a look at some spec reviews written by this guy, DL Hintz.
She ended up really liking the reviews and then Holly had to come clean who this DL Hintz actually was. For the first several years, I thought it charming that I was essentially writing under my maiden name (and email me if you really want to know the story behind that).
Here is a link to a search of Style’s site that will pull up my stories written as David Timberline. I’ve also had quite a few that ended up with a Dave Timberline byline. The several years worth of stories written under the DL Hintz byline are mostly lost to the digital dust bin but you can see some of them here.
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