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About the Author

A Vietnam Era Veteran, my desire to write was born in my late teens. Inspired and encouraged by professionals when I spent a year as the Office Boy for the President and other Executives of Gannett News. My higher education was interrupted by a six-year stint in the Navy, where I developed my ability to spin a tale, coached by some of the best story tellers around, and where the best stories usually began with “Now this ain’t no B…S…”.

Married to the same wonderful woman for almost 50 years now, I somehow managed to earn three degrees by working and going to college at night, while we raised our daughter. This daughter kept my creative juices flowing, as she required me to come up with a new story every night about one of her stuffed animals. I began to write fiction, along with poetry, as a way to battle boredom at work, as well as to fill the time spent alone, as it was my wife’s turn to complete her dream and become an Art Historian. With our daughter now married, and living her dream as an Elementary School Teacher, wife, and mother of the greatest granddaughter in the world, it was time for me to re-kindle my dream. I retired at the earliest age that I could and began to write seriously. My first published work was a feature article for a collecting magazine, titled “Addicted to Glass”.

Not being a person who tolerates long waits for answers well, I read up on the world of self-publishing. I decided to give it a go. I published works under a pen name at first, and then more recently under my own name. To date, between the two, I have over thirty works of fiction ranging from short stories to novels, along with three collections of poetry, and four stand-alone poems published.

Smashwords Interview

Who are your favorite authors?
In my youth, Dr. Seuss, was right at the top of the list, and he isn't very far down it today. His stories are timeless, and have been friends to me since I had the honor of meeting him as a 3rd, grader. As I grew a bit older Frank and Joe Hardy captured the lime-light, and were soon joined by Mark Twain, maybe the master story teller of all times. (I would like to take this moment to personally thank Mr. Ken Burns for his wonderful series on the man.) John Steinbeck and Ian Fleming, shared the favorites role during high school.

I am not sure that I have an individual favorite author today, well except for myself. I have found that I have come to enjoy the works of a group of authors. The write for what is classified and teens and young adults. I think that this is were some of the best authors and stories exist today. This is an educated group, that demands, both a good story, as well as a well written story. They fully expect that author, to bring the story to life for them, no matter how impossible they story may actually be.
What inspires you to get out of bed each day?
Truthfully, one or all of my seven cats, tends to make sure that I get out of bed each and every day. Thankfully, I am a morning person, so I don't really mind, for once they are loved, fed and I have some coffee in me, I often take the quiet time to write.
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