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David "Kawika" Maszak is a writer and marketer who has worked in the radio, television, newspaper and interactive media industries. Early in his career, he was a production assistant for the legendary radio personality Hal Lewis. Maszak went on to eventually be named as the executive producer for Manex Interactive in San Francisco, California, which received a New York International Independent Film & Video Festival award for its experimental short film Seriality. Much of his career in traditional media was spent with Gannett, where his specialty was creating advertising and promotion programs in markets where the company's newspaper division owned a property involved in a Newspaper joint operating agreement, a controversial business arrangement sanctioned by congress in 1970 during the Nixon Administration that allows two competing newspapers in the same market to combine operations. == Early life == Born on April 22, 1962 in Killeen, Texas (Fort Hood Army Base), to a military family, Maszak moved frequently as a child and lived abroad in places such as Japan and Thailand. His father, a meteorologist for the United States Air Force's Military Airlift Command, was eventually transferred to Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he cross-trained in (astrogeophysics ) in order to forecast the sun's solar flares, which can greatly impact satellite communications. Uninterested in school for the most part, Maszak's passion for words and writing was sparked by a Hawaii high school English teacher's assignment to read "There Will Come Soft Rains" from Ray Bradbury's short story collection, The Martian Chronicles. Instantly hooked on science fiction short story writing, Maszak asked his English teacher to suggest other authors. Two recommendations further pulled Maszak toward the idea of writing: * speculative fiction author Harlan Ellison, who had recently published Deathbird Stories: A Pantheon of Modern Gods * and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., who had recently published Slapstick and Jailbird. Shortly afterward, impassioned by Bradbury's writing style, Ellison's dark subject matter, and Vonnegut's humor, Maszak was assigned to write a short story to be entered in the National Scholastic Writing Contest. Although his English teacher found it disturbing, it was submitted and garnered Maszak an honorable mention – thus launching Maszak's love of short-form writing – although it would not be until 1991 that he (published his first work of fiction ). With no funds for collage and unable attain a scholarship because of low SAT scores, Maszak took a job working for a local radio station, which introduced him to the two elements that have been central to his career: marketing and computers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David “Kawika” Maszak」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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