I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, a suburb of Los Angeles. I would have had an absolutely normal childhood except for one fact: it was the nineteen sixties, and my best friend’s father worked in Cold War aerospace . . . and the friend's father owned a mimeograph machine. So along with a dog, bicycle, and baseball mitt, friends and I had access to a device that allowed us to put out a neighborhood newspaper— and we shamelessly did so!

This encouraged my lifelong love of writing. In my next career, I became a paramedic for a fire department. As part of my medical background, I took training as a lay midwife. In the fire dept I had several roles, including disaster preparedness educator, inspector, and captain, writing training manuals by day and fiction by night.

I am a trained scuba diver and have toured the continent on a motorcycle. Today I am a full-time writer, and all my experiences tend to wind up on the pages of his novels. I am the author of three books and working on a fourth (and fifth).

Medium member since September 2023
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