While serving in the US Navy and then completing a tour in Viet Nam, I discovered and devoured Science and Fantasy Fiction. Sci-fi authors who influenced his writing style include E. E. Doc Smith, Lee Hoffman, and Keith Laumer. Authors on his favorites’ fantasy fiction list include Terry Brooks, David Eddings, Raymond E. Feist, and JRR Tolkien. Favored mystery writers are John D McDonald, Tony Hillerman, Sue Grafton, and Patricia Cromwell.
After being honorably discharged from the military I bounced around in the Southwest . For the past 16 years, he has lived in Arizona with my wife, Marty. I am the proud father of a daughter, two sons and "Papa" to seven grandchildren. I own my own IT consulting business, providing services to small and medium businesses in the Valley of the Sun.
In 1991 I partnered with Jo Wilkins and we began our Tyranny Series. Our partnership led them to create Mystic Publishers in order help other writers get their works published. Jo and I are currently working on Tyranny’s Alliance and I am developing my own trilogy, and plans to release my first novel, The Adam Eradication, in the summer of 2007
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