About

Greetings

I grew up in a tough blue-collar steel town, Steelton PA to be specific. Almost everyone worked in the steel mill, a typical lower middle-class town. The measure of a person was not wealth. It was how well you performed on your chosen field of battle, mine was a wrestling mat. The only thought of being creative was to order something other than whiskey and ginger ale at the bar.

I meandered through college from liberal arts, accounting, and business administration to Information Technology, the latter gave me a degree, so I took it and ran. To be fair the liberal arts was my freshman year, and I went to Keystone College to wrestle, not necessarily for an education. In my freshman year I found that I had an aptitude for creativity while taking an English Composition course with the professor, Theodore Cogswell. He wrote a Star Trek novel titled Spock Messiah. I found out quite by accident if I wrote about the seedier sides of college life with an exaggerated imagination, I would receive an A. I was the only A in a sea of C’s. While in college my Sociology professor Leslie Johns told me that I was in the wrong field, that I should write, I wish I listened to her. After earning a 100% on her essay final, I graduated, got married and had two wonderful daughters.

Computer analysis and design has always come easy for me and so I found work with the State Government of Pennsylvania. In my career, which is the bulk of my life I was a computer analyst / administrator and application developer. I have designed and wrote more computer systems and end user manuals than I can document here. I find that the process of writing a novel is like designing a computer system. Before you type a word, you know the desired result. The same logical process is used in designing a computer system. Recently, I retired as an IT Contractor where I was an Asset Management Analysis for Vector Consulting.

I have written five novels, the first four in the Sci-Fi / Fantasy genre. The first novel which was the first of a trilogy finished in the top ten percent twice out of five thousand entries in the Amazon Debut Novel Contest. I changed my focus to Thrillers because my professional training has made me detail oriented and better suited for this genre. I wrote my current work because of my years of working in an office cube environment and seeing with an exaggerated imagination in many of the details of DESPERATE ACTIONS.

I was a wrestling official for 31 years. During that time, I was a Rules Interpreter and Assignor of Officials and evaluated as one of the top officials in my area for 25 years, currently I serve on the District Wrestling Committee. In 2023 I was selected for induction into the PA District Wrestling Hall of Fame.  I enjoy riding my motorcycle, and no I don’t wear a helmet, my wife wants the insurance right away.