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I grew up on the border in far south Texas in the 1950's and 60's and have long been a fan of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Patrick O'Brien, Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, and Agatha Christie. I particularly enjoy writing about ordinary people who do extraordinary things.

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While it has been a life-long ambition, I wrote my first novel, LAGUNA, in 2005, and did not begin to write full time until 2016. I'm interested in history and use actual events as a setting for my stories. Readers likely recognize the Sherlock Holmes style of clues building to a climax, rich Dickensian characters, Austen's love of complications, and the surprise twist endings enjoyed by Christie fans. 

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I chose the novel as my preferred medium for an exploration of these themes, partly because it provides greater subtlety and texture to the complexity humans bring to everything they do. I love movies and write in a cinematic style, where chapters are scenes, vivid and immersive. Readers often call my novels "page turners" that they "can't put down."  My favorite kind too.