I grew up running wild on the coasts and in the forests of Downeast Maine. When I didn’t have my nose in a book, I was dreaming up some new story, often out of history. Thus my love for historic fiction was born. I read everything I could get my hands on. I especially loved the books of Rosemary Sutcliff and Elizabeth George Speare. As I grew older, I expanded into the works such as those of of Mark Twain, Jack London, Ambrose Bierce and Rudyard Kipling. Their literary styles began to influence mine and for the first time I dared to start my own novel. At age thirteen I could be found plunking away on my father’s computer delving into the world of the Irish Potato Famine of the nineteenth century. However, I knew next to nothing at such a tender age about plot structure or even where I intended my story to go. Before long I had turned my attention to a story set in the Roman Empire along Hadrian’s Wall. And so on.

Fast forward several years and I became busy with a family of my own. Now I have returned to my old love of writing and of history. My current works in progress include The Serpentine Key set in tenth century Constantinople during the coup against Basil II and The Dark Waters Trilogy set in Revolutionary era frontier America.