Cayuse Coyote and the Portal of Time -- Author

I graduated from the University of Washington with a double degree in Journalism and Psychology. Basically, I consider myself a storyteller who tries to make sure that the writing doesn't get in the way.

Imagine yourself sitting in a cold car on a snowy night and you have a pretty good sense of the conditions under which the first book was written. I was driving tractor-trailer for UPS and wrote The Legend of BoJo in 15-minute snatches inside the cab of a Big Brown big-rig. Nothing like the smell of diesel at midnight to put you in the mood to write! After retiring, I completed The Portal of Time and am now fully engaged in the third and final book, The Crystal Keys.

This whole thing actually started as a piece of graphic art, a 3D landscape composed in Bryce 2.0. It was OK, but it looked like everyone else's stuff. So I found a photo of my dogs wearing their cute red doggie packs. I cut Cayuse out and and pasted her into my graphic, then posted it to the Bryce Board on AOL. You have to write a description, so I wrote something about "Even a dog has heroes. Cayuse is searching for Toto." Of course, I thought it was terribly clever at the time. The next graphic that I posted continued the "saga" of Cayuse, so I created the "Legend of Toto" poem to tack onto it. Well, Toto became BoJo and the graphic became a book. A really BIG book. So big that I had to break it into two books. Then a trilogy.

My goal has been simple: to write a book that I would want to read, one that I would be willing to buy with my hard-earned dollars at the local book store. I started off with a sense of Dickens, Tolkien, and Andre Norton, then ran into a little Wizard of Oz and Leonard Elmore along the way.

I've been told that my strengths are deep, complex characters and rich world-building, and plots woven like a tapestry. Among my faults: I tend to use too many adverbs. I'm working diligently to correct that (chortle!)

Currently in the works: book three, The Crystal Keys
Projected for the future: The Fall of Gossamer (a story of the Before Times); The Dwarf King (the early adventures of Dunkin and Gannin); and Mud Dabber's Song (the adventures of Myrna's Cheawa foster daughter.)

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		I graduated from the University of Washington with a double degree in Journalism and Psychology. Basically, I consider myself a storyteller who tries to make sure that the writing doesn't get in the way. Imagine yourself sitting in a cold car on a snowy night and you have a pretty good sense of the conditions under which the first book was written. I was driving tractor-trailer for UPS and wrote The Legend of BoJo in 15-minute snatches inside the cab of a Big Brown big-rig. Nothing like the smell of diesel at midnight to put you in the mood to write! After retiring, I completed The Portal of Time and am now fully engaged in the third and final book, The Crystal Keys. This whole thing actually started as a piece of graphic art, a 3D landscape composed in Bryce 2.0. It was OK, but it looked like everyone else's stuff. So I found a photo of my dogs wearing their cute red doggie packs. I cut Cayuse out and and pasted her into my graphic, then posted it to the Bryce Board on AOL. You have to write a description, so I wrote something about "Even a dog has heroes. Cayuse is searching for Toto." Of course, I thought it was terribly clever at the time. The next graphic that I posted continued the "saga" of Cayuse, so I created the "Legend of Toto" poem to tack onto it. Well, Toto became BoJo and the graphic became a book. A really BIG book. So big that I had to break it into two books. Then a trilogy. My goal has been simple: to write a book that I would want to read, one that I would be willing to buy with my hard-earned dollars at the local book store. I started off with a sense of Dickens, Tolkien, and Andre Norton, then ran into a little Wizard of Oz and Leonard Elmore along the way. I've been told that my strengths are deep, complex characters and rich world-building, and plots woven like a tapestry. Among my faults: I tend to use too many adverbs. I'm working diligently to correct that (chortle!) Currently in the works: book three, The Crystal Keys Projected for the future: The Fall of Gossamer (a story of the Before Times); The Dwarf King (the early adventures of Dunkin and Gannin); and Mud Dabber's Song (the adventures of Myrna's Cheawa foster daughter.)