He is a semi-retired health professional. He could say, along with the legendary mysterious writer, B. Traven, that while his personal history would be of interest, he prefers his privacy and lets his work speak for itself. But other considerations tie his hands for the present until he is fully retired. Perhaps then…

Growing up in the 50s, he spent half his time at the theaters in Portland, Oregon which are now only a memory. But those were the days of the “monster-boom” in films, along with more serious fantasy classics such as Forbidden Planet, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, and Journey to the Center of the Earth. He still cherishes the memory of those old-fashioned theaters, with their rococo ceilings and balconies (although not the twerps that threw popcorn down into the audience below), the stately curtains that slowly drew aside at the start of the picture, the 5-cent candy, the 25-cent price of admission. When he was 12, his elementary school screened a print of Northwest Passage, and from then on he was hooked by the story of Rogers’ Rangers and the wider French and Indian War – an interest that led to the writing of the novel Wulfsdgerd and the creation of the Seth Athenor series.

The other half of his childhood involved feeding his imagination with the printed word. Edgar Rice Burroughs gave way to Poe, John Buchan, Harold Lamb, Ray Bradbury, Ian Fleming, and in his mid-teens to Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft, and Clark Ashton Smith. Later, he would add mainstream authors like Hemingway, and older authors of supernatural horror such as Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, M.R. James, and William Hope Hodgson, who favored atmosphere, mood, and the slow building of suspense.

As sometimes happens, the confluence of all that led to writing his own stories, beginning at the age of 15, and during the next ten years, they comprised nine books, the last of which was the first draft of Wulfsdgerd. None of the books written during that time were published; they weren’t good enough, he did not have the life experience necessary to create convincing characters. Ultimately, most of them were inadvertently destroyed (no loss to posterity).
However, in 2022, he found the time and interest in resuming writing, now with the breadth and depth of experience and knowledge imparted by the intervening years. To date, he has written nine novels and one freestanding short story, with no end in sight.

So, come along as we visit the ancient and legendary lands of Lost AEthergone and a British North America of the 1700s that never was. Here, you will not find better guides than Thrar, the Berserkr of Borealea, or Seth Athenor, a hero of perseverance, intelligence, faith and fearlessness.