Arnold Ytreeide

Long before Microsoft and Amazon moved into Seattle, it was a Boeing town and my dad built airplanes for thirty years. It was a wonderful place to grow up! My Dad and I could go salmon fishing right out in the bay while we watched the Space Needle going up. Later I learned to scuba dive in that same bay, and it opened up a whole new world. It was just an hour's drive to the mountain ski resorts and hundreds of places for our Boy Scout troop to go camping. It's also, of course, where I made my first movie at age ten, and started serious writing with I was twelve, and why the first full-length book I wrote (though not the first one published) takes place in a tiny town on a bay, and is called Submarine Spy.

I've been telling stories almost all my life, starting at age ten. At first it was just for school and family, but it wasn't long before I had the itch to reach a wider audience. There were adventures inside of me, and I wanted others to be able to go on those adventures too. So as I grew, short stories, plays, and movies gave way to full-length books, screenplays, stage plays, radio and TV shows, magazine articles, and stage musicals.