I’m an Iowa boy, who moved to Colorado in 1981, John Denver and his music inspiring me to head to the Rocky Mountains, which has been my home ever since. I love the outdoors, roughing it in a tent during my younger days. After I got married, we moved up to camping trailers and now travel in our motorhome.
Like my mother, another passion is riding a motorcycle. Our latest, a three wheeled Spyder I ride whenever the weather lets me.
I’m often asked the question of how long I have been writing. My answer, all my life. In my teenage years, I wrote poetry to deal with teenage angst. Then in my twenties, I wrote three novels which were never published, well before the days of self-publishing. I put it all aside to get married, have a child, and build a career as an Information Technology professional.
Picking up the writing bug again in 2014, I published my first work, a short story which was the beginning of my Jarvis Mann Private Eye series, "The Case of the Missing Bubble Gum Card," followed shortly after by the first novel, Tracking A Shadow. This series now features ten books, with number eleven in the works. The Front Range Butcher is, still to this day, one of my best sellers and the Readers Favorite Gold Medal Winner of 2019 for best Psychological Thriller.
After book 8 in the Jarvis Mann series, I began writing a new series--the four-book Divine Devils series--which won two major awards: The Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for Best Thriller in 2021 for The Divine Devils and Fallen Star in 2022 (The Divine Devils Book 2). These awards were a major highlight of my writing career, with medallions I proudly display on my table when selling books at events and craft fairs.
With the Divine Devils series completed, I began a third series. Justice For The Forgotten will be released March 3rd, and has a plot born from an idea from my wife and time I spent attending the Westminster Citizens Police Academy. The first book in the Steel Wheels Cold Mystery series, features a retired Westminster Police Officer, Donnie Steel, and his K-9 companion Kogel. The two of them are contacted via Donnie’s online blog about a three-year-old cold case murder in Southern Colorado. This is the first of what I hope will be many cold cases the two of them work together to solve.
Altogether I have released fifteen books, with two more in the works, all with Colorado being prominently featured and the home base for each of the major protagonists. These characters exhibit traces of my sense of humor, though I’m not nearly as tough and fearless. Though no evil stands a chance against my written word!