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My first book was co-authored with my cousin at eighteen, written on typewriters using carbon paper. An English mystery novel, he wrote one chapter, I wrote the next. It was a sure fire scheme (one of many) to make us a lot of money. Surprisingly, the offers didn't roll in. But I guess it was the first feeble start of my writing career. Take some time out: to raise a family, have a teaching career, write and produce school plays, build our log home, restore a classic Mustang, a '69 Mach 1 for enthusiasts, and go on lots of canoe trips up north in Algonquin Park. Twenty years later, unable to find a science fantasy adventure I liked, to the encouragement of my wife, I wrote The Reedsmith of Zendar. I followed that up with A Lesson in Revenge – a thriller based on two schools in Hamilton and my experience as a teacher. Next was a thriller called A Change of Heart – born of the question – “Would someone accept a heart transplant knowing they could only keep the heart for a year?” I followed that up with an adventure mystery, Three Bucks and a Doe, a novel in which three brothers, canoeing up north, discover the secret behind the 100 year old mystery of the death of Canadian artist Tom Thompson. Now here I am launching book number five, a past/present, dual time, suspense novel set in Dodge City Kansas where a detective in 2019 ends up communicating with a US marshal in 1876.So what do you have waiting in store for you? My books are varied, but whether suspense, a thriller, or an adventure story, all contain characters in trouble you will care about and root for. He's never perfect and neither is she, but the attraction is inevitable as they learn about each other on an adventure seldom of their choosing.

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  Wilfrid Laurier University