Ever since I was a kid, I have always wanted to write about the stories and adventures unfolding and playing out in my over-active imagination. Like most children, I was influenced by the shows and cartoons I watched on TV, as well as the comic books I voraciously read. It helped that I had parents who fostered and catered to the ravenous curiosity with which their little boy was afflicted.

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At a very young age, the shelves and dresser of my bedroom were already stacked with issues of OMNI, The Uncanny X-Men, and Carl Sagan's Cosmos; as well as the works of Poe, Peter Straub, AC Doyle, Asimov, and others. Needless to say, I wanted for very little when it came to literature and creative encouragement. I was blessed, to say the least.

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The bug to write really started when I was in college. I had gotten the idea for a story, wrote a few chapters, and - between marriages and moving - I never got back to it. That story, by the way, will finally be published in Fall 2018.

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It took many years, a dear friend, and my incredibly supportive wife, Kimberlee to motivate me to actually sit down at my laptop and finish my first novel, The Arcade.

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From our humble digs in the Appalachian Mountains, I now put to use all the creative nuturing my parents provided - and I know that from whichever cloud they're watching me, they're proud of that kid that ran around the neighborhood dressed like a ninja.

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It's been a long road...