I have always has a passion for reading and have felt an overwhelming call to start writing. I began nearly ten years ago but just recently decided to start sharing my stories.

My most recent book is called Indigo 5 and falls into the SciFi genre, but is truly more of a drama that takes place in this futuristic world. It is about a man who suffers trauma after trauma and is desperate to escape his pain, only to find that it does not matter how far he runs, his pain follows him.

In 2016, I purchased a used bookstore that I renovated into a new and used bookstore with a coffee shop. It became a third place in our community. I have a great friend who is also an author, editor who I asked to do a Writers Workshop for me at the store. She agreed but only if I would take the workshop. I didn't see the benefit but did it anyway only to find out I enjoyed it. She said after one of my assignments that I should really continue to write the story because it was very good. So I did. I've always been a reader since I was very young.

The day hot-headed Abby Carter’s heart returns to its normal rhythm when the Leading Ladies (her ride-or-die friends) tell her she’s done the right thing. She just blew up her carefully curated life in Chicago. She quit her job. Come home to Logan’s Creek, they tell her, where they’re all waiting. Her spirits lift; she is, after all, a small-town girl, and the big city has worn her down. But then she remembers she hasn’t told her laidback boyfriend (no labels) Ian. Then there is her first love, Josh who she runs into after she moves back home. .Josh is running for mayor. Abby needs a job, so the two make a deal. Abby will run his campaign. A win/win, right? Not so fast. The current mayor is as crooked as a corkscrew and is willing to do anything to win. If that means undermining Josh and threatening Abby to step away from the campaign, then so be it. In the meantime, Ian decides Abby means more to him than he realized. And maybe, just maybe, their casual arrangement wasn’t the best idea. He shows up in Logan’s Creek, intent on winning her back. He may even be willing to commit. Stranger things have happened. But then there is the old Mayor Thornton. He’s ready to take on Josh running against him and plans on winning. Regardless of the cost to Logan’s Creek.

I think from the moment I could read stories I began to write my own. I have always been a loner and would disappear into the woods or a hiding place and scribble down stories. Even when I was in the army, my colleagues would go out on the town and I'd stay in barracks jotting down stories.

Original Earth is an unlimited science fiction series about a girl growing up in the jungle of an alien planet. Anu is eight when the spaceship crash lands. Her mother dies due to the crash and her father goes in search of help. Anu is left alone with her five-year-old brother. The siblings are raised by a species of ape called the mantou. Anu befriends many other animals, including dolphins in the sea. When she's fifteen, she meets a alien woman called Sonri. Then she is reconnected with her father who had been held prisoner in a human community. Sonri's people, the phen, consider the planet as a sanctuary for animals humans have made extinct on their own planet, so the story builds to a confrontation. Book two is about Sonri sharing technology with Anu and their growing relationship and the human community struggle to make sense of their new environment. Book three is about Anu and Sonri experiencing other planets and the human community fracturing as they begin to pull in different directions. In book four, Anu and Sonri return to Original Earth and there will be a book five, six, seven and eight etcetera.

My sister said I'd make a good storyteller. Bringing up my daughter on my own I created stories around unusual records I had inspired by Peer Gynt. With retiring I decided the time was right to test the waters.

My latest two novels was a move to the crime genre. Being an ex-Policeman I decided to research the early days of Policing starting in the 17th century Covent Garden. I spent over 12 months researching the period from every angle. As with all my books I want them to be authentic with the period. The stories are based in Covent Garden and revolve around Malachi's origins. His father James Bentley is a multi talented and respected businessman and conman, but he harbours an evil side abusing women despite his own origins in the back streets of Covent Garden. In trying to seduce the daughter of a business sponsor he is thwarted by a maid resulting in her dismissal. The maid is abducted, raped, and abandoned to James Bentley's brothel grin by an ex partner in Covent Garden. The maid dies giving birth to Malachi and one of the nymph's is given the task of disposing of him. Unable to do so she leaves him in St Pauls Church. A home is found by the pastor. As Malachi grows he crosses paths unknowingly with his father who is undergoing a major change in character due to finding and falling in love with the domestically abused wife of a potential marker in his deceptions. Coming of age at 16 Malachi is told the truth of his origins. Working as a clerk to De Ville the first Bow Street Magistrate he sets out to bring his father to justice.

I think I've always had a vivid imagination and keeping it all inside was just too overwhelming.

My latest book is a historical fiction novel set in Colorado in the 1880s during the silver boom, which led to a railroad boom, so to speak. It's about the restlessness of youth. Leaving what is comfortable and confining for something exciting and liberating. What usually happens is that as we feel the force of the "exciting and liberating" world, we begin to long for that which is comfortable and confining. You'll have to read the book to see how that plays out.

I was deciphering a lot of secret knowledge and was experiencing a lot of unusual events, so I contemplated what would be the best way to record and document these things, and decided that was a book.

Yes, my latest book is called 'The Movement - Illumination Of The World' and the Foreword is a world first, written by one of the most advanced minds the world has ever seen, and I will leave that there as a tease!

My nan was a great reader, especially of Agatha Christie. To please her, I wrote a short Whodunit, bashing it out on my brother's Olivetti typewriter. I stitched it together and waited nervously for her to read it. She did and, more importantly, she couldn't guess who the perpetrator of the crime was! This inspired me to write more. As I avidly devoured every Agatha Christie I could get my hands on, I discovered Jack Higgins. This, for me, was a revelation! I wanted to write the same sort of gritty, British thrillers he did. So, I did. This was in the early 70s. In 1979, I submitted my first completed novel and, in 2009, I was fortunate to have a book accepted by a small, Indie press. I've never looked back and now have over 50 books published.

My latest book is a Western. 'Left for Dead' is the first in a series that follows the blood-soaked career of Hahmood, a stone-cold killer who stops at nothing to get what he wants. Unlike other so-called heroes, Hahmood has no conscience. He is unrelenting and deadly. He will appear in a series of 5 novels, and a further series in which he mellows somewhat and teams up with a highly moral sheriff to serve and protect the local community. I hope you enjoy his journey.

I'm not sure it was inspiration writing is something I believe you are born with, indigenous so to say. It has proved at times to be a curse as if madness wasn't enough.

Architect of Havoc is my 9th book published by a small press . It's a collection of short stories with ‘RAZOR SHARP SLICES OF VIVID AND LURID LIVES THAT ARE BRUTAL, TRAGIC, AND PAINFULLY FUNNY.’

I have enjoyed writing since elementary. I remember writing simple poems that rhymed or something for my mom and dad.

BE is a collection of my poetry and prose that I have written during my life over many decades. There are haiku, tanka, and my verses and prose about nature, love, heartache, war, Hawaii, and social issues. I am proud to state my poetry book was recognized as runner-up in the New York Book Festival, London Book Festival, and the Great Northwest Book Festival. BE received an Honorable Mention at the Los Angeles Book Festival and the San Francisco Book Festival.

My family had moved to Martinsville, Indiana for a brief period of about four years and had a property in the country 5 miles outside of town. I discovered some remarkable and concerning facts about the property dating back prior to the Civil War period. This discovery, coupled with the notorious and well deserved reputation of the town, gave me plenty of material to get started writing The Farm.

The Farm is about a family (grandparents and two grandchildren) who move to the country near Martinsville, Indiana. They discover a truly terrifying past lurking in the backyard that permeates the property and confines them as it once did to other unfortunate county residents. They discover parallel crimes in the present which they are determined to confront. The present day crimes intertwine with the past and a shocking discovery makes it all personal.