Born in Vermont, I began writing at about age five or so. Attended The Pine Cobble School, Tilton Academy, the Hoosac School, Franklin Pierce College, and the University of Vermont. Published: Disaster to Worm City in 1975 in Highlights, and the bug was planted in my skull to keep doing this. I have appeared in a number of plays and musicals, and for many years wrote poetry in the cocktail napkin school style, which means half it was unreadable when I finally read it the next morning, and other half gave self-indulgence a bad name. Returning to prose I immediately set out to write a series of Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, which produced three completed works that met worldwide rejection. In 1998, I bought my first computer and within a year I have two sites up and running and worked for a third. I was the Mystery Editor at the Writer's Hood for five years, where I produced two serials, one of which became Educated Murder, and the other Take Out, both Gary Shine Mysteries, however, during this time I was researching and penning the Barbary Coast Mysteries as well, producing two novellas, and seven short stories. In 2001 a novella When Murder Gathers was published by Orchid Press Mysteries. Today, work on the Barbary Coast Mysteries first novel is nearly complete, early reads yielded encouraging results and comments by writers and agents alike, so with a little more elbow grease I'll get this project done soon. Too, a new project coming up will be authoring a PI serial for The Quill.

I also run two mystery writer's critique groups, the Mysterious Writ, and Dirty Deeds, both of whom have been very helpful in my writing getting this far. If you want to contact me just hit the link at the top of the page and drop me a line. Thanks for stopping by.