Born in December of 1949, seems like an awfully long time ago and I guess 64 years is a long time. I grew up on the Mauney Mill Hill, in Kings Mountain, NC, learning to ride my bicycle and play baseball with the rest of the gang. Our family was not rich, by a long shot, but we had a wonderful life growing up. We didn’t have much, but on the same hand, we didn’t want for anything. We had family, friends, church and were happy, and in that day and time, that meant a lot. I started elementary school at West End Elementary School. I think now it is just called West Elementary. I attended Kings Mountain High School and after Graduation in 1968, returned only for a short while. I spent 5 years in Ft. Myers, Florida and returned to live in Shelby, NC.  I spent the next forty years in the electrical trade, contracting, engineering and designing until Illness forced my retirement in December 2012. It was then I began to contemplate a desire I had held on to for my entire life. I had always thought of being a writer. I sat down at my computer and began to write a story I had written inside my head for the last fifty years. I had learned only a few years previously that I actually had ancestors who fought at the Battle of Kings Mountain. That bit of information intensified a fire that had been smouldering all these years.       Growing up in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and especially in Kings Mountain, enhanced an interest in the American Revolution that was birthed at an early age with a visit to the Kings Mountain National Military Park. Yearly family reunions at nearby Lake Crawford, in the South Carolina portion of the park, gave easy access to visits to the National Park Museum, walks along the trails, and never missing a close up view of the gravesite of Major Patrick Ferguson and an opportunity to throw another rock onto the rock pile signifying the grave and a climb to the top of the rock pile to declare, "I am King of this Mountain." A lifelong dream of authoring a book  became a reality. Living near the Kings Mountain National Park and also, a short distance from the Cowpens National Park only serves to fuel my imagination, and desire to share even more stories based on the history of the United States. My love of history has played a major role in the writing of all of my books.      My latest book uses my imagination to spin a story which someday may become a reality.  The R.O.B.I.N, is an acronym for remotely operated broadband intelligent network device. The R.O.B.I.N. is the most sophisticated audio and visual intelligence gathering device ever created combined with assassination capability never before known. A "nano" drone the size of a common housefly, the R.O.B.I.N is stolen by terrorist and the lot falls to Agent Chris Lee of the National Security Intelligence Services to find the terrorist and save the United States and the world. The plot twists and turns to challenge the readers imagination and in some cases even challenged my imagination.  Other Books I have authored: King of the Mountain  A Revoluntionary War novel of the Battle of Kings Mountain. High Cotton  Rivetting tale of a twelve year old boy kidnapped in West Africa and sold to Dutch slave traders, his strength, and determination to be free. A Season of Revenge  Detective Mac  O’Hara is challenged  when the discovery of four bodies leads him on a path of murder, revenge and the occult in 1890’s St. Louis.                                                                                        Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;}