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I've been an avid reader since I was in elementary school. Our school had a small library and I was allowed to check out books starting in the third grade. My mother was the school's Principal and she insisted that I read a book every two weeks. By the end of the year, I'd read everything in that small school library. My eighth birthday gift was a library card.

I've always written fiction but didn't have an opportunity to devote time to it until just a few years ago. I had twenty years experience writing technical documents, but, I soon discovered that writing fiction is vastly different from writing nonfiction.

The Beacon at Barrington Light was my first indie release. All my previous sales had been through traditional channels. My novel, Em ...more

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Average rating: 4.45 · 205 ratings · 22 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	Émigré (The Tri-Cluster Confederation Book 1) 4.41 avg rating — 109 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beacon at Barrington Light: A Novella of the Tri-Cluster Confederation (Tales of the Tri-Cluster Confederation Book 1) 4.48 avg rating — 92 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dundee Orbital 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Payback Is A Bitch (The Kurtherian Endgame, #1)

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