Mr. Parola is a retired Professor of cultural history at Indiana University and University of Michigan-Flint; the Ministry of Defense, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Koç University in Istanbul Turkey.
As a former Naval Air Intelligence officer and a career researcher, Mr. Parola has trained himself to be a keen observer of his surroundings and has acquired a large cultural and social context into which those observations fit.
He is a free lance writer of Business (See Honolulu Star Bulletin, July 28, 2002) and Technical (Hurricane Handbook, Sail Net News, Spring, 2003) articles. His short stories have been published in Voices from the Universe and in Bamboo Ridge Press, 25th Anniversary Edition. And the Spring
2006 edition.
Mr. Parola speaks frequently to lodges, clubs and service organizations on a variety of topics.

Website: http://www.diamondhawaiipress.com

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• Sagebrush on Feb. 08, 2011
  
  I read all of Bill Dicksion's books when they were in print and discovered a marvelous story teller. It was interesting that when I met him I realized that I had heard that soft Oklahoma color in his printed words. Bill, captures the American Southwest so well because he grew up there and looked carefully around at that world. And he recaptures it with both objectivity and nostalgia that has a real ring of truth to it.
  
• A Button in the Fabric of Time on Feb. 09, 2011
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  I met Bill Dicksion years ago when he was making that transformation from a storyteller to a writer. I kept up with his Westerns as they came out in print, but I didn't discover 'A Button in the Fabric Time' until a fellow fan clued me in. "It's Bill, but it's not Oklahoma Bill," he told me over the phone. "And it's an e-book. He's gone electronic!!" So I looked it up and he was almost right. This was Bill the scientist writing and he was writing in first person, a much more personal adventure--even if it's Science Fiction. The story has that touch of detail that I find in all his books. It always pulls me into the action. I'm glad to see him working in a new genre. Gene Parola, Ph.D.
  
• Puma Son of Mountain Lion on Feb. 09, 2011
  
  I first read this book in its print version, but it has been greatly rewritten and improved. Mr. Dicksion has the knowledge, a result of having grown up in his characters' milieu, to make you see and feel the rich barrenness of the places. The great sensitivity with which he presents the inner life of the young Brave, is characteristic of his story telling skill. I think there is much in the story about how the author matured as a young man imbued in his character's growth to manhood. The life of the Southwest United States has been told by only a few novelists. Bill Dicksion may be one of the last and best at the task. Gene J. Parola, Ph.D.
  
• A Man Called Ty on Feb. 09, 2011
  
  This books starts out slow. It 's characteristic, I think, of the way this careful author builds his plots. It is also the way that many novels were begun in prewar America. The setting and the people were carefully presented before the tumult of the action impinged on both. What Ty becomes, would have little meaning if we didn't know so well where he came from and who he was when he began his journey. So many stories of the Post Civil War South are much too flamboyant to stand up under much scrutiny. This under stated tale of the making of a man that emerges out of the horror of America's most destructive war comes from an author's whose family was directly touched by that destruction. Gene J. Parola, Ph.D
  
• Follow The Money (A collection of interconnected short stories) on April 18, 2011
  
  The simplest thing to say is that Cavins is a very funny author. His humor permeates the entire book. I always love to hear the characters speak in the book like they'd speak in person and Cavins recreates that lingo with care. It adds greatly to the 'color' of the piece. I'm waiting for his next book.
  
• Follow The Money (A collection of interconnected short stories) on April 18, 2011
  
  The simplest thing to say is that Cavins is a very funny author. His humor permeates the entire book. I always love to hear the characters speak in the book like they'd speak in person and Cavins recreates that lingo with care. It adds greatly to the 'color' of the piece. I'm waiting for his next book.