Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am the middle child of three born to a country church pastor, raised in various parsonages throughout south Alabama and the panhandle of Florida. I have been involved in church music essentially throughout my entire life. I sang in children’s choir, youth choir, and the adult choir even as a child. At the age of 16 when the pianist at my father’s parish took a sabbatical to have a baby, I assumed the role, playing for services until I left for college. I graduated from Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama, with a degree in music education and have spent my adult life as a church musician working in southern churches. I met my lovely wife, Pam, through my work in church music. She was a member of one of the church choirs I directed. The chair of the committee which hired me as music director at the church where I met Pam boasts that I was guaranteed they would find me a wife, and they did. I have written three books which I have now bound together as a trilogy.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My latest book is a trilogy – my first three novels bound into one. The trilogy follows the life of a conservative southern family – their solidarity through life’s highs and lows, the fun and sometimes quirky, but always quintessentially southern citizens of the town in which they live, and their faith in God.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
I find I get the most writing done late in the evening while sitting in bed with a notebook computer in my lap, my wife next to me either reading or asleep.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
My wife is an avid reader of Christian fiction. Each night, she sits in bed reading a novel to unwind and prepare to sleep. After some years watching this ritual, I began to casually thumb through the novels sitting on her nightstand and developed an interest in writing this genre of fiction.
What are you working on now?
Currently, I am working on the 4th book in the Bellamy Family Series which will be a retrospective on the life of “Aunt Vivian”, one of the supporting and quite colorful characters in the series.
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
Don’t stop writing.
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