Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
Vietnam veteran, teacher for 31 years, emergency room coordinator for 10 years, grandfather. I just completed Finnegan Found, which is my second book.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
Finnegan Found-Surviving the POW Camps on the Yalu.
I wrote Bean Camp to Briar Patch-Life in the POW Camps of Korea and Vietnam as a result of researchng the history of 203 US Marines captured in China on 7 Dec 1941. One of them was my wife’s father, who like so many Prisoners of War, died at a young age. Very few family members knew the story of their husband/father. I created northchinamarines.com so family members could find and read their stories. When I was asked by the American Ex-POW organization to write some articles for their publication I came to the understanding the same problem existed with Korea and Vietnam. Family members, and certainly the average American, knew almost nothing about the POW experience from those wars. Bean Camp to Briar Patch detailed the facts, but there was still something missing. Finnegan Found uses historical fiction to teach the facts of the Korean War POW experience by telling a story. Just the way tribal lore was handed down over the centuries. The tale is about forgotten men from the Forgotten War. Their war within the war began seventy years ago. It is time for us to acknowledge their story and give them the respect they deserve.
Do you have any advice for new authors?
Plan what to do with your book before you write it. Know how you plan to market it before you complete it.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Duck!
If you were going to be stranded on a desert island and allowed to take 3 or 4 books with you what books would you bring?
The four best survival books I could find. The best written story in the world won’t do you much good if can’t survive to read it.
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