When I do a book signing or give a talk the question I’m most often asked is how did I become a writer? I tell them when I was in the sixth grade our teacher, Mrs. Whalen gave the class an assignment. We had to write a story. It could be a real story or one we made up. A few days later she called me up to her desk. I noticed she had been reading my story and she asked me if I knew what I might like to be when I grew up.  I told her I would like to be a forest ranger. She said that would be a good thing to be, but had I ever thought about becoming a writer?  I told her no. She looked at me and said, very seriously perhaps someday you should.

That’s when the writing seed was planted and I’ve been writing ever since.

One of the highlights of my writing career was when I was evited to give a talk and signing at one of the countries most prestigious privately funded libraries in the country, the Ernest Hemingway Library in Sun Valley, Idaho.

When I was eleven, I became interested and fell in love with fly fishing. For many of my adult years I wrote magazine articles mostly about this wonderful sport. When I retired from the medical profession, I became the senior-editor at large for a fly fishing magazine. It was at this time I wrote Tibetan Adventure, the first book in my planned adventure series of novels. After finishing number five in the series I took a break to write The Valley of Tranquility, which is now in a second edition. At this time, I’m working on a sequel to the Valley of Tranquility.