Yes, my first story was a non fiction account of how, at age six I imagined myself as Captain Marvel. While on the school yard swing, I waited until the swing was at its highest point and, yelled SHAZAM, and jumped off. I landed on top of a second grade girl, and was punished by teh Nuns for a sexual attack.

I am not as disciplined as I should be. I don't have a schedule. I try to read as much as I write, I write every day, often for an hour, other times for two hours. If I am working on a piece I often am writing it in my head while driving or eating or working out side doing chores

Kindle Fire

Messy

I typically make a sketch of what I think the cover should say about the book.I Include any art work I want. Then I turn it over to a designer.

Anything by John MacDonald or T.C Boyle. They are the best at descriptive narrative

Mysteries, historical fiction, and ghost stories

Face Book, email, Twitter, radio interviews, and library book signings..

I grew up in Houlton, Maine. I was not a good student. The influences for my writing comes from my military and business careers..

2010, a memoir for my great granddaughter. It was called Letters to Lyla and sold very well. That was followed by a second memoir and several short stories.

The primary protagonists are Padgett Harvey, a young girl born of a Native American Mother (Maliseet tribe) and white father..and Sean Patrick McGuinness, an Irish boy from the same town who, like Padgett was from a poor family. Padgett's folks were murdered when she was 8, so she was forced to move to her grandparents home in sub standard housing close to the town dump..where Indians lived. When she was 12 her grandmother and uncle were killed in a fire, she was forced into foster care. She fared well, became valedictorian of her high school class, excelled in college, and became successful in New York as a financial analyst.
Sean Patrick, an Irish boy with alcoholic parents, lived in a poor part of Houlton called “Paddy Hollow”. He had good looks, commanding stature, blue eyes, and black hair with more curls than a Persian lamb. Those features, together with his natural athletic ability and out-going personality, helped him hone his entrepreneurial skills. He, as with Padgett, used these natural gifts to rise above his humble beginnings and become an icon in the world of business.

Ease of publication. Exposure to multiple marketing outlets

Promotion promotion promotion

A book of ghost stories, perhaps 20 of them 3000-7000 words each

TC Boyle, Hemingway, MacDonald

Promoting my books, volunteering for Trout in the classroom

Kindle, Smashwords