As teachers' comments on my early report cards reflect, I've always been a daydreamer soaring through space.

Over the years, while I quietly contemplated what might dwell beyond the bounds of Earth, a love of science fiction and astral discoveries grew like the expanding universe, and I knew one day all my notes and musings would form the foundation for an exciting, entertaining, and provocative space-travel novel.

I was born in northern Ohio (long ago), but grew up in Miami, Florida, and now live on the "Space Coast" near Cape Canaveral, where shuttle launches visible from my front yard set the stage for Alpha Rising.

When not contemplating space, involved in humanitarian activities, or writing, I love spending time learning from children and caring for animals. Other interests include nature, cooking, artistic pursuits and frivolous fun, and in my wildest dream I'd get the chance to go to Space Camp to experiment with zero gravity. My hope for the future is that many medical conditions will be successfully treated and cured in space station laboratories.

I have one grown son and one grandchild, and a strong faith that carries over in witness to God's miracles. At one point in my life I was given two weeks to live during treatment of a softball-sized cancerous tumor on my pericardium (the protective sac around the heart).

I consider that difficult year a gift.

alpha rising
When sci-fi becomes reality...

After a space rescue mission only partially succeeds, six astronauts crash onto a seemingly desolate planet. Abduction, deceit, seduction and hedonism spark an allegorical battle of good versus evil that soon finds a planet-hopping hero racing through lands of future and past, on a Divinely-commanded mission in search of sacred icon. The feel-good 21st century conclusion fulfills prophecy.