Introduce yourself
I have written eight books ranging from histories to business management. Hellraiser is my first historical novel intended for the mass market. I have completed a novel titled Latent Images that is planned for release in 2014.
A coalminer’s son, I am a native of Bridgeport, West Virginia, located in the center of the northern coalfields referred to in my book. Among my published books is West Virginia USA, 1976, which was co-authored with AP feature writer Strat Douthat. It was a chapter written by Douthat that introduced me to Mother Jones.
I hold bachelor and masters degree in journalism from West Virginia University and I was an assistant professor of journalism there for seven years. In the 1970s, I was editor and co-publisher of a small town weekly newspaper in Terra Alta, West Virginia, The Preston County News, which won forty state and national awards during those years. At the same time I co-founded the Pioneer Press of West Virginia.
In the 1980s I was elected to two terms as a West Virginia State Senator. After leaving the Senate I became vice president of the West Virginia Hospital Association and then president and CEO of the Nevada Hospital Association. After a stint as executive director of Lifegift Organ Donation Centers in Houston, Fort Worth, Lubbock and Amarillo,Texas, in the 1990s, I worked as an independent business consultant and became known worldwide for my expertise in the field of knowledge management. I was editor of Knowledge Management Magazine in London, England, before retiring in 2010.
My wife Michele and I live in Sun City Center, Florida, where I ride my motorcycle to bluegrass music concerts and jamborees all over the state. I am a competitive tennis player and avid reader.
While my life-long career has been varied, writing has always been my strength and my passion and I have thoroughly enjoyed reading and writing about Mother Jones, off and on, during the past decade or more.
A coalminer’s son, I am a native of Bridgeport, West Virginia, located in the center of the northern coalfields referred to in my book. Among my published books is West Virginia USA, 1976, which was co-authored with AP feature writer Strat Douthat. It was a chapter written by Douthat that introduced me to Mother Jones.
I hold bachelor and masters degree in journalism from West Virginia University and I was an assistant professor of journalism there for seven years. In the 1970s, I was editor and co-publisher of a small town weekly newspaper in Terra Alta, West Virginia, The Preston County News, which won forty state and national awards during those years. At the same time I co-founded the Pioneer Press of West Virginia.
In the 1980s I was elected to two terms as a West Virginia State Senator. After leaving the Senate I became vice president of the West Virginia Hospital Association and then president and CEO of the Nevada Hospital Association. After a stint as executive director of Lifegift Organ Donation Centers in Houston, Fort Worth, Lubbock and Amarillo,Texas, in the 1990s, I worked as an independent business consultant and became known worldwide for my expertise in the field of knowledge management. I was editor of Knowledge Management Magazine in London, England, before retiring in 2010.
My wife Michele and I live in Sun City Center, Florida, where I ride my motorcycle to bluegrass music concerts and jamborees all over the state. I am a competitive tennis player and avid reader.
While my life-long career has been varied, writing has always been my strength and my passion and I have thoroughly enjoyed reading and writing about Mother Jones, off and on, during the past decade or more.
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