Tell us about yourself and how many books you have written.
I am a retired Alabama attorney residing in Pensacola, Florida. With my wife Jennie, we enjoy active travel, hiking and biking, domestic and foreign.
Locally, we play duplicate bridge, enjoy plays, shows, concerts and opera, along with good food, wine and friends. Of course, I write fiction, and try to find enough time for poker and golf.
What is the name of your latest book and what inspired it?
My third book is BENSON’S PLAN, which features corruption in the modern United States political arena, extending to murder and treason as three college friends set out on a life long quest to bring this country to a system of complete and total socialism.
From my law practice, I have an extensive knowledge of government and politics with insight (no involvement) into lies, bribery, corruption and other common wrongs that permeate politics and quest for power in modern local, state and federal government.
Do you have any unusual writing habits?
My background is legal writing to submit to judges. Most judges are very busy. A good lawyer must be concise, get to the point, omit extraneous, and quickly convince the judge your client’s position should be strongly considered.
I outline the books main story. I often get to the main points quickly and directly. At this point, I could write the basic story in a few days. But a fifty page book does not work, so I then go back and add stories within the main story to fill out the book.
What authors, or books have influenced you?
I would say John Grisham, partly because he is a lawyer that became an excellent fiction writer, but more so because his first book initially failed, and he persisted.
What are you working on now?
Book Four, a fictional story around an actual secret part of a government agency.
What is your best method or website when it comes to promoting your books?
Facebook
Do you have any advice for new authors?
I am too new to be giving advice. I can say, keep trying
What is the best advice you have ever heard?
When I asked a wealthy man what amount of return he tried to get on an investment, he replied “I have never known a man to go broke selling at a profit”. In life, do not be greedy.
What are you reading now?
There is so much going on in our country that I am presently consumed in following daily news to the exclusion of fiction and history.
What’s next for you as a writer?
I need about six more months to complete Book Four.
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?
I do not have a romantic answer. Give me books on small boat building, island food supplies, fire, smoke and other signals