What began as a hobby long ago has become the pursuit of a life-long ambition.
I
started out at age 13 writing a space-travel novel, inspired by a recently-released film called “Star Wars”. Heard
of it? Oh, how I wanted to write stuff like that! So, throughout high school and into college, I took creative writing courses,
Composition and Critical Thinking classes, anything I could take to educate myself on the finer points of writing. Writing
and English Lit became my focus, my hobby. I've read everything I can get my hands on, from newspapers to fiction to technical
manuals. My favorite authors include Ray Bradbury, although I personally am not a science fiction writer. “The Martian
Chronicles” is my favorite book of all time. Beautiful. Simple. Amazing.
I am professionally published as a contributing author to a technical document for NASA/JPL, “The Alternative Site
Assessment for the Outrigger Array of the Outrigger Telescope”. It’s an enormous two volume research report involving
site assessments for a telescope. Though there were many contributing authors, as it was a compilation piece, my section had
the distinction of being the only section that was not edited or rewritten. Not a bad accomplishment. You can find
the report at:
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/Outrigger/finalDocuments/Chapters/Volume1/Chapter7.pdf.
My first published novel was "Island
of Glass" from the Dragonblade Trilogy. Since then, I have had many more published that are sold at local
outlets and through my website. The most popular series I have done is the Dragonblade Trilogy and the most popular
novel I have written is "Spectre of the Sword" and "The White Lord of Wellesbourne." I have fans
all over the world who enjoy my novels and write me wonderful emails. Currently, I plan to sell my novels at the Southern
California Renaissance Fair and we are working a deal to possibly sell them at the Medieval Times chain locations throughout
the nation.