I was born and raised in Chino, California. I come from a family steeped in military history, from the Civil War through to Vietnam. I have raised three great children, Shaune, Brandon and Katie Anne. After spending many years in Loveland, Colorado, I now make my home on Long Island, New York. I was taught at an early age to love books by my father. He fell in love with reading while driving a tank across Europe in World War II, and years later impressed upon me that the written word is the only form of communication that allows an individual to use his own mind, the greatest Special Effects machine in the world, to visualize a story. My influences include, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tom Clancy, Clive Cussler, Larry Bond and the greatest character writer in history, Stephen King. I believe you will find touches of everyone of these authors in my work. The only thing I love more than writing is research. Especially historical research. My belief and the subtext of all Event novels is that by understanding our past, figuring out our present by understanding our past, makes figuring out our present (and creating a better future) a little easier. .

My family’s military experiences and remembrances, always had one common and recurring element that a lot of ‘war stories’ fail to have---they seemed to resonate with everyone always wanting to be somewhere else. When you write about military matters, you cannot seem to be writing to glorify the aspect and results of war---I want to convey the ‘must’, the sometimes inevitable reasons for it. To humanize the people who never start, but are always there to finish. The Event Group is written along those lines, never to glorify, but to acknowledge that when force is to be used, it is to be used as a LAST measure. I never try to put soldiers of any nation into a storyline to use as a mere backdrop, or cannon fodder if you will, but try desperately to make them a viable and reasonable part of the story. So, if you say the military has influenced my writing, yes, it has made me far more human.

In reality I have wanted to write since the age of nine. Even when reading history books I would want to change the outcome of the stories I read there---some of them just weren’t to my liking---so as an exercise when I was a boy, I would put history into the proper prospective for a kid of my age, I would change history and write about it. I always had a much happier ending than most of the real life tragedies depicted in actual human and world history. Alas, growing up (a foul word indeed) you find that no matter how you try to justify it, history is there for a reason---it is a part of us, it makes us who we are, and since I couldn’t change it, I would live with it, and just write about alternatives to the narrative of real life---thus the prologues in my novels----so in answer, most of my life have I wanted to write, because in most cases, the reality of who we are sometimes sucks big time.

Be tenacious if you believe in what you have written. Write something as unique as possible. Know what you write, it makes things a lot easier. Don’t let anybody tell you ‘why, that’s a ridiculous dream,’ and for heaven’s sake, tell everyone you know to read anything they can, we have a quest here, and that is to save the written word from going as extinct as the dinosaur. Economies don’t scare me, books, at least relatively speaking, are cheap and they hold vast treasure chest of wonder for people who like to envision their own special effects in their heads. For the writer in everyone, don’t be afraid to put it down on paper, because odds are, if you like it, others will also, and we always need good stories---tenacity!