Roland has been writing since his early teens, first as a hobby, but as the years passed, more as a serious creative pursuit.  He is an avid reader, with his main interests residing in history, mythology, and literary classics, along with some fantasy and science fiction in his earlier years.  Although his college years were focused on a technical education, he always fostered his interest in literature, and has sought to fill every gap on his bookshelves. 

By nature a do-it-yourself type of personality, his creative inclinations started with art and evolved to the written word.  The process of creativity is a source of fascination for him, and the notion of bringing something to being that would not exist without personal effort and commitment serves not only as inspiration but as fulfillment as well.  So whether it is writing, woodwork, or landscaping, his hands and mind are not often at rest.

Over the years he accumulated a dust laden catalog of his written works, with his reading audience limited to family and friends.  It was only recently that he decided to become serious about publication and the pursuit of a writing career.  After deciding to approach this as a profession and not a hobby, the first glimmers of success came along.  Following the decision to move forward in Fall 2007, he has secured publication for a number of short stories, has received a nomination for inclusion in the Pushcart Anthology, built his own website, and in November 2010 realized publication for an anthology of three novellas, titled Remnant, from All Things That Matter Press.  He followed this with the 2012 publication of his second book, Oddities & Entities.

His writing can best be described as depicting strange people involved in perhaps stranger situations.  He is not devoted to any one genre of writing.  Instead, he prefers to let his stories follow their own path.  Classification can follow after the fact, but if one is looking for labels, one would find his stories in several categories.  Sometimes speculative, other times supernatural, at times horror, with journeys into mainstream fiction, and even some humor- or perhaps the bizarre.  Despite the category, he aims to depict characters as real on the page as they are in his head, with prose of literary quality.  His literary inspirations are as eclectic as his written works- from Poe to Kate Chopin, from Homer to Tolkien, from Flaubert to William Gibson, from Shakespeare to Tolstoy, as long as a piece is true to itself, he is willing to go along for the ride.  He hopes to bring the same to his own fiction.

In respect to those regards, Remnant has received critical acclaim from the following reviewers:

Bestsellersworld.com
SanFranciscoBookReview.com
FeatheredQuill.com
ReaderViews.com
RebeccasReads.com
BookReview.com
Foreword Clarion
Midwest Literary Review
...and...
Finalist, Science Fiction Category, 2011 National Indie Excellence Awards

Full reviews can be read on the author's book page for Remnant.