Me

Sean McDevitt, after being born at an early age, was rocketed to Earth by his family in the hopes he would gain powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal man. So far, not so good.

As a child, he grew up in Effingham, Ill. He has heard all the “Effin- jokes” before. He has been a Shamrock, a Flaming Heart, a Blueboy and a Panther. Yes, his high school letterman’s jacket has a big red flaming heart on the sleeve.

He earned his Master’s in Speech Communications from Eastern Illinois University and a Bachelor’s in English/Creative Writing from Illinois College. Running cross-country for Illinois College, he was the first four-year letter winner and captain his senior year. He was a member of the Sigma Pi Literary Society, which is way cooler than the fraternity that stole the name.

In his diverse and varied career, he has excelled at being a Yellow Pages sales representative, national magazine editor/writer, ad agency hack, speech teacher, web content writer/designer and burger flipper. He has more than ten years of marketing and promotional experience with both small businesses and established institutions including managing diverse activities from event planning and promotional copywriting to web site creation and teaching.

Currently, he is the Communications Specialist with The Board of Certified Safety Professionals, Web Site Manager with the Champaign County YMCA and the Director of Marketing for Blue Stream Records. With Grant Chastain, he is the co-founder of the virtual studio, Chance Avenue Productions. He is the creator of the original comic book, Slip Kid and the author of an essay and short story collection named How to Fight Loneliness. He is currently working on half a dozen creative endeavors none of which he can talk about right now.

He was married once, but it didn’t take. He has a daughter. No, you can’t date her.

He drinks only water, Diet Rite Cherry, Starbucks and Red Bull. He will totally eat all of your crab rangoon, go shoe shopping with you and never say you look fat in that dress.

McDevitt is not nearly as famous as some of the people he’s met including Gene Simmons (KISS), J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5 creator), Kevin Smith (Silent Bob), Mandy Amano (the Pepsi girl), Dee Brown, Luther Head & Deron Williams (NBA and Illinois Basketball), Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun Times), George Perez (comic book artist extrordinaire), Mark Waid (Boom Studios head honcho), several Star Trek people (Walter Koenig is really short and Peter David messed-up one of my books with his autograph) and some skinny chap named Barack Obama.

You can find him at the usual social networking places: Twitter, LinkedIn, Flickr, and Facebook. He hates MySpace with a passion that knows no bounds.

He makes his home in Champaign, Ill., where he marvels at his collection of original sketches, rarely completes his many projects, roots for Illinois Basketball and is always looking for the next big adventure.