Though I wrote some fiction in high school and college, I didn’t really consider myself a writer until I started writing my first novel, This Paper World back in 2001.

To me, success is being able to do what you love full time. I’m not at that stage yet with my writing, but that is the dream, the image I hold in my mind. I’d love to be able to write full-time and support my family with my writing.  I wouldn’t have to be JK Rowling or Stephen King rich, just a modest income that keeps all the lights on at home.

Yes. My time travel thriller ONE WAY has been filmed and is currently in the post-production process. I was asked to adapt the screenplay from the novel. It was filmed in England, so I also had to change the setting from the US to the UK. I’ve seen some footage and it looks amazing. I can’t wait to see the finished product.

While I haven’t been traditionally published, I have put out my own work as an independent author. It was a long journey and one that I hadn’t even realized I had started at the beginning. After I finished writing my first book, I spent a long time querying for literary agents.  This was a long and tedious task back in the days before email and the internet it really taken hold. Most agents wanted a typed letter as well as a self-addressed stamped envelope for their reply. It was a long process that took me several hours just to get 10 or 15 of these things out. After several rejections, I sort of lost steam for the writing thing and focused on my career and family. Several years later I started listening to podcasts and got hooked on a few literary podcasts and serialized audiobooks. That gave me the idea to take my old novel that I had written years before and put it out as a podcast in audio form. I figured that the internet being what it was, people would quickly tell me how horrible my writing was and that I should go hide under a rock. Actually, the opposite happened. Almost immediately I started getting amazing feedback and encouragement. This was followed by people who were asking if they could buy a copy of the book either in paper or ebook format. Mainly because I didn’t want to let people down, I started researching how to do ebook publishing and later on print-on-demand. As I continued writing, I also started putting up new works in these formats as well.

Yes!! I’m currently working on my 5th novel, the 3rd in my Champion Saga. It has been a long journey with these characters. A lot of people reach out to me fairly frequently because the second book left on a bit of a cliffhanger, so I’ll be really excited to get this new book out to them.

Because I have to balance my writing with a demanding day job and family life, I write pretty much anywhere I can find the time and space. This means I have written on the couch at night after people go to bed, from a Starbucks or Panera, in a hotel room while traveling for business, and even on a crowded airplane. I’m not picky and don’t have to have a specific environment to write. What I need most is time, so anytime I’m afforded some of that precious commodity, I will do my best to use it wisely writing new stories.

Most of the bookshelves in my house are spoken for by other people. I only have probably four bookshelves of my own in the house proper. I have bags and stacks of books in the attic and in the garage. I’m horrible at book collecting.