A few years back, I told a good friend of mine about a book concept that I had thought of years earlier, but had been unable to write, as I always felt my writing to be too stilted. He loved the concept and wrote the first chapter. Over the next couple of years or so, we found time outside of our jobs and busy lives to co-write "Lethal Vision" under the pen name of Thomas Holt. That effort allowed me to understand that I can write, but more importantly, I realized just how much I love to write. “Creatures” was my first solo novel, hopefully one of many to come. I was born and raised in the south and was fortunate to have two wonderful parents and a couple of fun (most of the time) older siblings. After a four-year stint in the navy, I went to school at the University of Alabama (Roll Tide), where I met and married the love of my life. After ten years of being a couple, we doubled the size of our family by having two amazing and talented kids. Raising them was one of the most rewarding experiences of our lives, and from the way they have turned out, I guess we can say we did a pretty darn good job. Over the past 35 years or so, I worked as a design/development engineer for various medical device companies in California. Finding out that writing brings me the same creative joy that I feel when coming up with unique device designs was a wonderful surprise, and I’m looking forward to pursuing it full time as I head into the next chapter of my life. I hope that you will decide to come along for that ride and that you will enjoy my novels.