I was born in Bay Shore, Long Island, New York on August 14, 1942. My father was in the Army Air Force at the time and shipped out to North Africa once we had established an air base in present day Libya. My early years were spent on Long Island living near my grandfather’s farm.

Once WWII ended my life as an Army ‘brat’ began. I started school in Virginia. They didn’t have kindergarten at that time and I began first grade just a few weeks after turning five years old. I was forever a year younger than my classmates wherever I went after that. Besides Virginia, I remember going to schools in New York, Texas and California before moving to Kaiserslautern, Germany and being in the fifth grade in the Army school there. We returned to the states and California in 1954. We moved around California several times and I attended schools in San Pedro, Carlsbad, and Oceanside. I attended Oceanside-Carlsbad High School and dropped out at the beginning of my senior year.

The following August I turned seventeen and joined the Army. With the exception of a three month break in 1962 I stayed in the Army until August, 1980, retiring as a Command Sergeant Major.

I entered the civilian work world in 1982 armed with an AS Degree in Electronic Technology and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and Business Administration. I worked in the electronic industry in Florida and Alabama until retiring in May 2001. The last dozen years or so were spent as a Quality Manager.

I’ve always had an interest in writing. The first inkling that I might have a tiny bit of talent came in high school when my English teacher accused me of plagiarism for a short science fiction story. During my Army career I enjoyed writing everything from citations to monthly operations reports from the combat zone to personnel evaluations to articles and reports for organizational requirements. I actually enjoyed writing term papers in college, never getting anything less than an ‘A’.

Since retiring in 2001 my writing focused on organizational newsletter articles and fiction. First I wrote a political novel titled The Second American Revolution that never went to print because the publisher went out of business literally days before the publication date. Although my intentions were to rewrite it, it was my first book and needed to be rewritten, I never completed that task. Perhaps I will one day. My next book was actually published, but not for long. It was an erotic romance titled In the Arms Of A Warrior. Once again, the publisher folded, this time after I had a successful book signing and was generating sales on amazon.com. That book will eventually be available again on amazon.com. I also have an erotic romance short story available from Whiskey Creek Press Torrid titled Coming Back a Virgin. A word of warning here, erotic means explicit sex. If you’re offended by that, erotic romance is not for you.

I wrote The Red Dragon in 2006. I think it’s my best book. I thought writing a war novel would be easy, it wasn’t. Although I had participated in many combat operations, I hadn’t planned them, nor did I have a sense of what else was taking place on the battlefield besides what was happening in my immediate vicinity. That, plus presenting the antagonist’s side of the story, required a lot of research on my part. The story is not autobiographical in any sense. There are bits and pieces of actual events woven into the story but the overall theme is fiction.

Since 1989 I have lived in northern Alabama with my lovely wife. For the last three plus years we have homeschooled our oldest granddaughter and started homeschooling the youngest this year. They keep us busy.