Chris has been fostered at the Crowley boot camp since he turned seven. At sixteen, he is finally ready to run away because his foster father is an abusive person who works Chris and the other children to the point of exhaustion. All he has left of h
The fortunate inherit riches, prestige, positive notoriety. Those not so lucky bear legacies filled with poverty, infamy or, worse yet, the unhinged insanity and murderous urges of their ancestors.
My writing influences include Stephen King, Anne Rice, Charles Grant, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Wilson Rawls.
Birth Place
Stillwater, OK USA
Accomplishments
I won the Society of Professional Journalists first place Mark of Excellence award for column writing in Region 8 in 1998 and 1999, plus a second-place for feature writing in 1999. I also have a couple of state chapter SPJ awards. In 2000, I won Short, Scary Tales' Best Fiction contest for my story "Reunion." In 2001 I won third place for historical romance novel and an honorable mention for short-short fiction from the Oklahoma Writers Federation, Inc.