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.

Why I Wrote The Sarah’s Landing Series The answer to that question isn’t as easily answered as one would think. I guess it all started when one of my co-workers said I should be writing books. When I asked her why, she said because I have a way with words and that I was supposed to write. “Who said so?” I asked. She just smiled and repeated her statement. “It’s something you should be doing,” she added,” but you are too chicken to even try.” I laughed, shook my head, said she was “nuts” and went back to work. Lunch time was over. However, after a while, say several weeks, her comments did pique my curiosity. I wondered for a crazy moment if I could actually sit down and put words on paper that had a story line to it. But the thought was fleeting and so it passed. It seemed that after that conversation, we crossed paths constantly, more so than we ever did. All she would do is smile and pretend to scribble in the air on an invisible piece of paper, pointing to what she was doing and to me, nodding her head that that is what I should be doing. I just laughingly shook it off and walked on. One very hectic morning, after struggling with my computer, I sat back, lit a cigarette … yes I used to smoke … and began to relax for a few moments before tackling my next objective. As I casually watched the smoke from my cigarette curl and float up towards the corner of my office wall, I started to wonder where it went. Did it pass through the walls and then travel down through the spaces between the finished wall and the frames? Did it go further on down through the basement floor and weave its way to the subterranean earth and into a cave or a world that existed beneath my feet? I didn’t know, but I pondered that journey and began to put the words down on paper. Several weeks later, working on this project off and on, I suddenly discovered that I had written four chapters. Someone told me once that if you manage to get by the first three chapters you were on your way to a book. My husband had been watching me off and on for those weeks and finally asked me what I was doing. I said I was writing a story. He asked why, and I said, because. I asked him to read the four chapters I had already written. What he didn’t know was that his answer would determine whether I completed the book or not. When he had finished reading the chapters I gave him, he looked up and asked, “Where are you going with this?” I said I didn’t know. “Well,” he said, “Even though I may regret saying this,” he paused momentarily as if making up his mind before continuing, then said he thought it was good. With my husband’s encouragement I wrote Sarah’s Landing-I, and went on to write the entire series of four books. Because I stopped smoking, I decided to take that part of the story out and instead of the deep recesses of the earth I went for the far reaches of space. I hope I have intrigued you enough to want to buy a copy of my book, and that you will have as much fun reading it as I did writing it. Thank you

People vanishing 10 years before the new millennium, the first space-exploration starship, Earth Star-I, lost in deep space fifty-one months earlier - Is there a connection between these unexplained disappearances and a village along the rocky coast of New England, a place called Sarah's Landing? Joshua Morgan is the Astronaut/Biologist searching for answers and is unaware his quest will take him to the far reaches of space and to an alien planet no one knew existed. Joshua's finds love for two different woman on two different worlds, light years apart. His love for these women results in the birth of two sons - one from the alien planet, one from Earth, and both empowered with mind-linking capabilities.