Early on, I was driven by bold curiosity. It didn't kill this cat, and this persuasion has never ceased.  I naturally studied everything that caught my fancy. Striking it rich, and foreign languages, including the language of cyberspace, have slipped by me. Science, metaphysics, music, literature, art, and history are favorites. I was weened on Dr. Seuse, Edgar Allan Poe. Classics like the fairy tales, Jules Vern, H.G. Wells, C.S. Lewis, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, H.P. Lovecraft, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Upton Sinclair, Isaac Asimov, and J.R.R. Tolkien were others I greatly enjoyed I love my wife & daughter with her own family now, which includes my grandson. I'm retired (due to illness) from performing as a singer, songwriter, soloist, bandleader, and public speaking, teaching, and counseling. Writing music began in my pre-teen years, Poetry in middle school, children's books when hope attached to daughter before and after several miscarriages, script writing for The Twilight Zone in the late 80s, journalism when involved with nonprofit organizations, and magazine short stories and a novel starting in the 1990s. Now I'm writing fantasy, science fiction, horror, comedy, romance, adventure, mystery and thrillers (Fiction). The Last Train came out after recalling my vampire series for a major redo. Then I did everything besides write my co-author's stories on Eyes of Prometheus, vol. 1, and laying the foundations for further volumes. Meanwhile, I have two very different books I'm working on. One's a high fantasy and the other is a science fiction fantasy.