I feel I should preface this bio with an apology because while I love creating pretend characters and my trademark is likely to be a heart wrenching introductory first-person prologue from my lead, I find describing myself quite tedious. I’m just not all that interesting. But hey, I’ll give it a shot. (big breath) So, here goes… An avid lifelong lover of the written word, I read at least a book or two a week, and on a really great vacation, five to seven. When I’m not working, volunteering, reading or writing, I spend my free time enjoying the outdoors with my family, alternating between our home in southwest Michigan, a tiny rustic hunting cabin in Colorado and every once in a while, when we’re blessed with means, a Spring break vacation in the Caribbean. I have a couple of published magazine articles to my credit and a B.S. from Purdue University where I studied IT, engineering and chemistry. That’s right, science. Nothing even remotely related to writing or language arts. But oh, this is good. When I was in college, I had a freshman English class where just about every paper I turned in came back with an A- and a comment like “did you write this?” or something to that effect. After several of these and because there was very little red ink elsewhere, I questioned the minus and the professor’s only response, after I assured him I wrote it, was to change it to an A. Maybe I should have listened to what he didn’t say. My stories are contemporary character driven tales of normal every-day people and the challenges we all face in real life: love, friendship, parenthood, morality, mortality, compassion and faith. My favorite novels are those that reach down deep into my whole heart and soul, make me laugh, and cry. And those are the types of stories I want to write. Stories that touch people’s lives. I want my reader to feel better, be better, love better, because they read my words and took them to heart. I want to inspire, to comfort and to breathe faith and hope into anyone who may despair that they’re alone in this world.