It's also no wonder that writing became an integral part of my life. At age 8, I wrote my first short story. In school, writing essays was something I considered fun, if not easy.

MORE THAN FICTION
In the early 1980's, I learned the art of direct mail copy writing. That may not seem like much to some, but those in marketing can appreciate a 63% response rate on warm market direct mail.

"Touch the Stars: Emergence," was co-authored by myself and John Dalmas, published by Tor Books, selling nearly thirty thousand copies. While far from a best-seller, it is still considered moderately successful, practically earning out the advance on royalties given the authors.

In college, I won two awards for writing — the Dutton Books award for best short story, "Toady," and the Krupnik Essay Award for, "Outsiderness in the Scientific Community." Concurrently, I used my technical writing skills while working at Ceridian (formerly Control Data Corporation), developing software training materials.

MORE TECHNICAL STUFF
While at Global Database Marketing, in Scottsdale, Arizona, I developed and wrote numerous bulletins on technical procedures and data cleansing theory. And, of course, as a programmer, a fair amount of technical writing is involved in the proper documentation of programming code, testing analysis, and debugging reports.

MORE TO COME
I continue to hone my creative writing abilities. For awhile, I was a member of the Phoenix area Barnes & Noble, Writers Round Table, a group of mostly professional, and a few fledgling writers, each with a strong motivation to master the art of words on paper (or in any other media). I am also a member of the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA), the professional association for writers of the genre.

For more information about what I'm currently working on, click projects.

If you would like to learn even more, click Contact, or check out my Creations.