My Mantra: “To Seek, Discover, Assimilate, & Disseminate Truth”

About Me

I am an author & blogger, artist & craftsman, and entrepreneur currently residing in beautiful Las Vegas, NV. Holding two nutritional certifications, I am a healthy nutrition, fitness, and lifestyle advocate. Ideologically, I describe myself as an individualistIndividualism:
The belief that all individuals are sovereign, having the sole and final authority over their own life, mind, body, labor, property, and wealth., consensualistConsensualism:
The belief that all interactions between individuals should be consensual among all involved, and not forced or coerced (or conversely, constrained or prohibited)., syncretist, & autarchist. As for BMTI profile, I am a strong INTJ (and BTW, got the mug too!). I love animals & wildlife, and am particularly fond of cats. I long to someday live in a small coastal village in a tropical climate, potentially south of the border (what can I say, I’m Aquarius, I need an ocean!)

(For a more complete biography, please feel free to review my Bio Page).

About My Fiction

I’ve been reading and writing (well, trying to write, anyway) since I was old enough to know how to do either. I still remember, when I was just a kid, spending endless hours downstairs banging away on my mom’s old typewriter, trying to write novels. In grade school I won a little writing contest and was published in the community newspaper. Later, in junior high school, I discovered they offered a typing class, and I immediately signed up—thus furthering my hope of becoming a writer. (If I remember correctly, I was the only guy in a class full of girls…I know, I know, showing my age…). As an adult, I worked as a technical writer, marketing & advertising copywriter, and graphic designer for a manufacturing company. During that time, I had a poem published (The Wall), as well as some articles in the local newspaper. I also wrote a little rhyming children’s book entitled Kip the Kangaroo (which never went anywhere—I didn’t know anyone who could draw cartoon animals!)

Years later, around 2001, while living in Houston, Texas, I completed my first short story: the psychologically twisted A Sweet Ride (which remains a reader favorite to this day).

Then in 2009, my mystifying story The Traveler was awarded First Place in the International Short Fiction competition hosted by Carpe Articulum Literary Review magazine. Also, my ghost story Forever Anna Day received Honorable Mention (essentially fourth place) in the same competition the following year. (Forever Anna Day has since been expanded to a novella, and is included in my collection Rolling The Bones, which is now available in hardcover, as well as paperback and on Kindle.

Also in 2010, my chilling story CATS (not the musical) ascended the ranks to become a Finalist (top 100) in the Writer’s Digest 79th Annual Writing Competition, in the Genre Short Story category (horror), and eventually placing 40th. CATS has since been greatly expanded to a short novel entitled CATS: the number of the beast (now included in the extended edition of my collection Rolling The Bones), which is now available in hardcover, as well as paperback and on Kindle.

In 2016, I published my dark fiction collection Rolling The Bones, which comprises twelve subtly interconnected tales: 8 short stories, 3 novellas, and a short novel. I followed up with a hardcover edition of Bones in 2021.

I currently have an extensive novel under development (working title Primeval, and estimated to weigh in at 750 – 800 pages), along with other various writing projects.

To peruse my fiction, and for notification of future book releases, you can visit/follow my Amazon Author Page.