I have read and written my entire life. My teachers have been Tolkien, Brooks, McCaffery, King, Hemingway, and Dickens. I have to say King is my favorite. My formal education and 'day job' is in psychology. I have earned an MA in Counseling, which helps the writing I think. Really everything I do is to help my writing.

I am married, have been for 15 years now. We have a 13 year old daughter who is very 13. We live in Oregon, which is probably my main literary influence (alot of Oregon is kind of creepy, you know?)

I wrote and published one book titled The Hunter Chronicles which is available through B&N and Amazon. I wrote another book that I would like to see published titled Gone! about a former SEAL who gets into mercinary 'wet work' and gets hired by a rich Texan to rescue his kidnapped daughter. I've shopped it to a couple of publishers, but I need an agent - any advice on that would be helpful.

My parents are dead - I have two sisters, who are older and live in Washington - I have a wife and a daughter and a chi-pom dog named Sophie and a pure white cat named Catherine.