I tell stories for a living. For years I told my own through books and magazine articles. My story is pretty simple. I married the love of my life when I was only twenty. Over 40 years, five daughters and six grandchildren later, we've lived in four states, traveled to six continents, and settled down in a place that is so cold in the winter we wonder what possessed us to live here. Every spring and summer we remember why. Writing is my third career. I started out as a firefighter when I was only 20. Then I served churches as a pastor for 16 years. Around the time I turned 40 I quit my day job to write full-time. I also went back to firefighting as a volunteer for over ten years.

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In addition to writing my own books and collaborating with others, I offer a wide variety of services for other writers as well as people with a story to tell who are not in the position to hire a collaborator. Click here for more information.

 

As a writer, I am always in the process of reading at least one book. I love the masters like Steinbeck, Hemingway, Crichton and Twain as well as popular writers including my writing heroes Stephen King and Dave Barry. I also can't get enough of novelists Michael Connelly and Harlan Coben. I've also read everything I can get my hands on from historians Hampton Sides and David McCollough. Great writers make the craft look easy. It's not.

 

When I'm not writing, I am probably on my bike or in my kayak. Life feels much better on the water with my wife or cruising down a bike trail.  

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Not long ago I did an interview about the writing life with The Illuminate podcast. Click on the link below to listen. 

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