I was born in El Paso, Texas in December of 1949 and grew up in nearby Anthony, New Mexico. I now live in Tampa, Florida, since July 1999, after spending most of my life in the great southwestern desert and mountain valleys there. I've been a coronor's assistant, worked in the Oil Fields, Cowboy'd in Colorado, raced cars, been a carpenter and drywaller, owned my own tractor-trailers, worked in a silver and lead mine in the SnowMass Wilderness, sold real estate, owned a video production company and heating/air conditioning business, written for magazines, produced a daily Internet political column, broke my own horses, farmed goats and poultry and have been a broadcast systems engineer and systems designer and worked on an engineering software development team. I could sit a horse before I could walk. I've also been a gunhand and some other things I won't talk about much, but suffice it to say, I've ridden the owl-hoot trail of the Texas/New Mexico Borderlands with some other young and stupid outlaws in my youth and was known as a pretty fast gun and an accurate shooter with a mouth to match-If I can't outshoot you, I'll talk you to death. I have been there and done that and rode the river-however, that was before I got old and got a bad back, but I can still shoot. I would also like to be Zorro when I grow up in a few years. Here's some pictures from my very early years "Click here".

I started writing again professionally with a novel called "Four Dead in 5 Seconds", which was finished November 1st, 2006 and have five sequels in the works to that one. My goal currently is for 3 books a year. I write a lot in the great tradition of L'Amour, who I always considered a hell of a good writer-probably the best in western genre. I've read nearly everything he wrote, some three or four times and almost every other author of the legacy authors more times than I can count. If it exists in my book, it really is there or was in the general time period the book was written in with a few exceptions as to ranches owned by "fictional" characters and the like. The "Four Dead" Book eclipses that with actual conversations and people, some real and some fictional in 1881 and 1882 El Paso and is really danged accurate as to date and time of day. The story is woven between the actual and non-actual events and "peopled" the same. All told, it is a damned good story, as all mine are-they're just a lot of fun to read. There's a lot about it in the "My Books" section here on the website as well as the first chapter excerpted.

On a personal note...

My wife, Tamara, and I have 6 sons and we have 6 grandkids. We absolutely love South Tampa. The weather is tropical and we love the water, sun and beaches, but I never lost my love of the allure of the open range, western mountains and deserts. I also have been enamoured with the history of the West. My hope is we never as an American Civilzation lose our roots grounded in the Old West. I will never stray far from my roots and return to the Southwest every chance I get. MY history is there and my legacy is here for you to read. I am a pretty darned good amateur weatherman and avowed weather and hurricane geek. I can also be found a good portion of available evenings and weekends in my vegetable garden-mostly New Mexico variety Chiles, Jalapeņos, Serrano Chiles, Tomatoes, Tomatillos and Okra, Herbs and Spices, and some Watermelon. I also love to cook Mexican Food and traditional Southern dishes. My family loves our Southwestern heritage and crave the Mexican food we were all raised on, but love Southern cooking, as well. We speak fluent Spanish and it is spoken frequently in our home.