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I wasn’t born to be a writer. There was no Eureka moment or great epiphany that announced my entry into writer-hood. My life has been shaped by a series of unique experiences that ¬¬¬¬have helped to develop my creativity, stamina and wit along with a deep passion to spin cutting-edge and believable stories.
• I worked for the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee during President Nixon’s impeachment proceeding alongside Hillary Rodham.
• I was a law school classmate of serial killer Ted Bundy.
• I played tennis with Robert Redford – twice!
• I completed a solo swim of the length of Lake Tahoe (21 miles) and a solo Bridge-to Bridge-to-Bridge (31 miles) swim in San Francisco Bay.
• I sat across the table from Arnold Palmer while negotiat
I wasn’t born to be a writer. There was no Eureka moment or great epiphany that announced my entry into writer-hood. My life has been shaped by a series of unique experiences that ¬¬¬¬have helped to develop my creativity, stamina and wit along with a deep passion to spin cutting-edge and believable stories.
• I worked for the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee during President Nixon’s impeachment proceeding alongside Hillary Rodham.
• I was a law school classmate of serial killer Ted Bundy.
• I played tennis with Robert Redford – twice!
• I completed a solo swim of the length of Lake Tahoe (21 miles) and a solo Bridge-to Bridge-to-Bridge (31 miles) swim in San Francisco Bay.
• I sat across the table from Arnold Palmer while negotiating the design for a new golf course in La Quinta, California.

After graduating from Bucknell University, I spent two years working in the Capitol Hill chambers of Washington DC. That experience led me to the University of Utah College of Law where I earned my JD. I started a full time career as a real estate executive with national real estate development companies and I focused on all phases of real estate development, finance, credit analysis, real property law and marketing. I took those skills and started my own business, Farallon Pacific Partners, where the primary objective was to provide professional services to national and institutional clients, each desiring to maximize their financial results through the proper utilization of their real estate assets.

My emergence as a writer is how I happened to meet my wife, Kristen. Within weeks after we first met, we asked each other, “Hmmm, What do you still have left to accomplish?” It turned out we both shared a secret desire to write a novel. Without any idea as to what we were doing, we plunged into writing a novel, getting to know each— we fell in love and were married.
As so often happens, life events intervened and we put the book in a box with the idea of getting back to it, eventually. Eventually happened 17 years later when I picked up the old dirt stained box and after reading through the story, I was hooked—again. It tugged at me, “come finish me…come finish me…” I found a way to get the dinosaur floppy disks converted over to modern technology and I began the whole process all over. Together, we had written a third of the story and had outlined parts of the rest. I took what we had started and spent the next twelve months writing, polishing, researching and writing. During that twelve month stretch, I knew that I had found a part of me that needed to be set loose. Wings to Redemption was the start of my new career as a writer of faction, where fiction borders on the edge of reality.

I now spend my time nestled in the Redwoods next to the Pacific Ocean working on the third book in the Alex Boudreau Adventure Series and I’ve planted the seeds for a whole new type of adventure series—stay tuned.
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“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004 ]”
― Jim Jarmusch

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“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
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― Edward Lear, The Owl and the Pussycat

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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

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― Helen Thomas

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