Major influences include Dr. Carl Sagan, The Leakey Family, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke as well as Nobel Prize-winning authors John Steinbeck and William Faulkner.     

----- Arizona Department of Education Certificate [9/09 to 8/15] - Phoenix, AZ.
---- B.S. Journalism [1974] - Northern Illinois U./ De Kalb, IL.
---- Program Director [2005/06] Gulf Coast Writers of Southwest Florida - Ft. Myers, FL.

While teaching at the secondary school level, I have also been pursuing a Masters Degree in Education. PublishAmerica agreed to republish my epic science fiction novel after I had made a few changes while introducing a new way to read a long work of fiction. [If only Tolstoy had thought of it when he wrote "War and Peace"!]