About
Dylan Davis is originally from Houston, Texas and started writing movie reviews in his grade school newsletter. He attended the University of Houston, studied in The People's Republic of China, and taught in the urban neighborhoods of the East Side. His first book, Humbucker Pickup: A Rock and Roll Love Story, was published in 2012. Three followups were published in quick succession in 2014: "FLYNN!", Dating Virginia, and Buffalo Seine. on Halloween of 2014 he published his first science-fiction work, Threshold. He currently lives in the Canadian Rockies with his wife and two children. The stereo in his writing room is on eleven.
Mission
It is my mission to be a better person. How we contextualize this, frame it, act on it, is all up to us and our individual responses to life. It is my desire to be more than someone who works seventy hours a week for someone else. I am a man, or more succinctly a human. I have expressions that I would like to make and if people happen to like them all the better.
This website is an attempt to spread my expressions through different avenues to the world. We are eight billion hearts and minds screaming for attention and most are not listening, but it does not mean we should not try. I am an author of print media, a blogger of random minutia that only has relevance to me. And in the future I hope to start a podcast to investigate the purpose of film as art in our lives.
You don't have to join me. you don't have to read me. You don't have to listen to me. But it would be very, very cool if you did.
PS: I don't write poems about flowers and shit in independent coffee shops wearing berets and bragging about my minority friends. Actually, I take that back. I do wear berets. And I know a few gay people.
Dylan Davis and his wife. Somewhere in Southern Alberta
Published Works:
Humbucker Pickup: A Rock and Roll Love Story
In 1989, Flynn Black has it all. After ten years of recording and touring, he has become a pillar of the rock and roll legacy in America. But just as he begins to question everything he has and why, he experiences a traumatic event that convinces him to throw it all away. While he rethinks his whole life, he stumbles upon the person who may be the reason to never go back.
After a professional comeback that establishes him as one of the most popular international musicians in music history, rock star Flynn Black (from Humbucker Pickup) seeks to move on after the greatest catastrophe of his personal life: abandoning his soulmate ingénue Virginia LaCaulle to go on tour. Moving to California to continue his career, Flynn is quickly enraptured by the beauty and brains of the elegant film star Jamie Dhue. Their worlds collide in outrageous glitz and glamour, but unfortunately they both know that the only thing harder than being a rock and roll star, is being in love with one. Join Flynn for the second volume of Dylan Davis' Dallas Street Anthology.
After her traumatic breakup with international musician Flynn Black (from Humbucker Pickup and “FLYNN!”), ingénue musician Virginia LaCaulle tries to move on. From her Premiere Arrondisemont Apartment in Paris, Virginia seeks to heal her body, mind, and spirit. Armed with extreme talent in playing guitar and with a global music corporation on standby, Virginia decides to conquer her fears one at a time: stagefright, creative composition, and the worst of all…dating. With Flynn far away and his best friend band mate Philip Hagan at her side, Virginia sets out to conquer the world...and show everyone the mistake Flynn made. Find out what she’s been up to.
Finally reunited through a tragedy of fate, international musicians Flynn Black and Virginia LaCaulle try to put their lives back together. It is a painful process steeped in love and anger. Following Humbucker Pickup, “FLYNN!”, and Dating Virginia, Buffalo Seine recounts the momentous events in Flynn and Virginia’s lives and careers as they attempt to be together despite their collective pain and heartbreak. Unfortunately they both know that the only thing crazier than being a rock and roll star is being in love with one. Join them for the beautiful conclusion, Volume 4 of Dylan Davis’ Dallas Street Anthology.
Dr. Dennis Laff speaks six different languages and has seven advanced degrees. He can configure orbital trajectories in his head, recite Pi to a hundred decimals, and argue the finer points of thermodynamics. That’s why the International Space Agency has tasked him with the sixteen septillion dollar effort to solve mankind’s biggest problem: a faster form of space travel. In the 26th Century, the Earth is polluted, greatly overpopulated, and running fast out of resources. It’s up to Laff and the biggest brain trust in the world to solve the problem. The answer might lie in wireless teleportation…or the mysterious properties of the newly found foreign element Redinium… or the solution might lie in Laff’s obsessive relationship with Canadian Tour Guide Rebecca Gomez. Laff has everything but the consolation of his totalitarian superiors…and he’ll get right on the quantum physics of tether tech, sun solar sails, and launching laser lightcraft using his own Startlight engine just as soon as he can figure out how to work the coffee machine in the break room.