About
Wedged smack in the middle, I proudly don the Gen X badge, which probably explains my love for everything 80’s—hair metal bands, ridiculous movies that would never pass today’s scrutiny, the absence of technology and abundance of freedom that allowed us to use our imaginations—all that good stuff. A living enigma, I love everything horror, everything loud when it comes to the devil’s music, everything sophomoric when it comes to comedy, yet I am driven by a sincere personal and private faith that shapes my fundamental core. As one of the last surviving natives of Colorado that didn’t migrate here during the early years of weed legalization, landmarks sometimes find their way into my writing and introduce the reader to our generally incognito state (kudos to the South Park guys for putting Casa Bonita on the national map!). I hold an undergraduate degree in Marketing from the University of Northern Colorado and a MS in Computer Information Technology from Regis University, and have spent the last 27 years in a career supporting mainframe technology (yes, those big refrigerator-looking things). But I’ve found all other achievements in life pale in comparison to the greatest honor of being called “dad”—a title I think every father must earn. I remember the precise divine moment when I vowed to give my all, and for the past two-plus decades I have had the joy of cultivating a relationship and unbreakable bond with a pair of beautiful daughters who will always be my best of friends. Parenting was the first thing in my life that didn’t feel like work.
That is, until I found writing.
Not the dry, methodical words of my master’s thesis, or the type of technical script that I have written over the course of my career—but the creative writing that drives me from within and pulls out a passion that rarely ever makes it to the surface of my generally dispassionate demeanor. Exploring the category of upmarket fiction, I like my writing to have broad commercial appeal while using deep literary detail to make the experience visceral, pulling the reader in and making them feel, smell, hear, taste, see my visions of the truly unsettling.
This is what I want to do for the rest of my life. If it brings such joy, it has to mean it’s what I was meant to do—right?
What People See. . .
What People Don't See. . .
As a quintessential introvert, putting myself out here on a worldwide platform is excruciating. Purposely inviting focus and attention into my private world and opening myself up to all the good and bad is terrifying at best. I much prefer to live inside my head—where it’s safe, where thoughts and ideas bounce around all day and fall through my fingertips into words that only I see, where I can observe the world around me, pull it all in, digest it, and only respond when necessary. That is how I’ve always lived.
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But it’s time for a change.
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I want to get my work out there, share it with the world, see if you like it—and the only way to make that happen is to go well outside my comfort zone, even if it took me more than 50 years to get here. I can’t continue to hide and expect to be found. So here I am, my life’s journey taking me from tech geek, to parent, to writer—this last stop uncovering a newfound passion that makes me feel alive again after the void of an empty nest. Armor on, ready to leap…here I go.
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FUN FACT: at the time of completing my first novel, not a soul on this planet knew that I wrote. Or that I was even interested in writing. Or that I even could write. Not family, not friends…no one. It was something I kept to myself, just for me, letting it drive me from within until I proved to myself that I could actually do it.
