The fiction writer works his or her magic within the framework of a personally compelling idea in any number of genres or categories. In a general fiction sense, I weave history with the characteristics of the romantic character-hero, an idealist, driving it along. The elements and search for personal meaning in and through crisis, willing sacrifice of self, developing love, values, having tests of faith, showing endurance, and hopes of some redemption and victory required to save the day, seem to be the ingredients which I find most compelling in a well-rounded main character; the old-fashioned romantic in me that it is.

As pen goes to paper a good writer sees the action and the characters come to life, speak their minds, make their cases.  When historical evidences are included they most often are considered true events which the storyteller weaves in to his or her fiction to make the story, the plot, the characters seem more plausible to the reader.  What many readers may not realize is that certain elements of truth may also be woven in to the stories based upon the writer’s personal history.

I have used personal history to some degree in all four novels produced. I believe most writers use people, places, or events they are familiar with to some degree in their story-telling. This often allows the writer the necessary emotion and sense of reality they wish to portray.  Some of the names, places, events have for their basis in fiction something that I or my family may have participated in, even if only in a small detail or way. So here go the confessions.

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The Last Valentine The Lighthouse Keeper Ticket Home Paradise Bay        DAD - The Man Who Lied to Save the Planet  MOM - The Woman Who Made Oatmeal Stick to My Ribs The Good Heart

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