Everything has a beginning .....

..... and for me this was it.

This was me during WWII. My Dad was a B-17 pilot and I was practicing to be his tail gunner. That didn’t work out…but I had fun trying. Please note the all-wood construction. During the war metal was needed for things like guns, tanks, planes, ships, et cetera. Toys were mostly made of wood.

I served four years in the Navy, 1956-1960. The main thing the Navy years did to launch my writing efforts was giving me long periods of time at sea…during which I started reading quite a bit. The reading continued throughout my life. I read everything from westerns to action/adventure…and a lot in between.

Later in life I started reading action/adventure almost exclusively. Thus when I began writing, I decided to write what I most enjoyed reading. Also, since my family has a long history of military service, with someone in the family having served in every war, starting in WWI to the present War on Terror, I opted to write my action/adventure novels with a military slant.