Some writers are born knowing they want to tell stories. Others discover it through circumstance and the quiet persistence of ideas that refuse to stay silent.
 

For this author, it began with summer reading challenges at the local library, a child who routinely doubled or tripled the target goals, losing himself in worlds created by others. The reading never stopped. Even now, a book a week remains the comfortable norm. But somewhere along the way, consuming stories gave way to something else: the need to get ideas out of his head and onto paper.
 

For years, those ideas sat in folders, historical fiction fragments with no expectation of completion, let alone publication. Then came a conversation with a colleague about a Toni Morrison quote: "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." Within days, a three-page prologue emerged, the seed of what would become The Lost Equation: Mystery Through Time.
 

The Saxby series marks a departure. Detective fiction was never the plan, but puzzle-solving; the intellectual architecture of crime fiction, always a quiet passion. The research draws on more than 40 years in the physical security industry, during which time he has designed solutions for banks, military installations, and government facilities. Although never serving in law enforcement, those decades provided an intimate understanding of how security systems work, how they fail, and how people behave under pressure.
 

Cancer arrived in late 2019. Multiple Myeloma, aggressive and late-stage. The first round of treatment brought depression and panic attacks in sleepless nights. When remission ended in 2024, the fear was familiar, but this time, writing became the strategy, pushing back against the darkness that stalks those hours.
 

Research, it turns out, is nearly as enjoyable as writing. For The Lost Equation, downtime during chemotherapy became an unexpected classroom, with more than 127 hours of online lectures on theoretical and quantum physics, transforming treatment days from lost hours spent battling his own immune system into periods of forced concentration.
 

Since the release of The Lost Equation: Mystery through Time, he has released the Ransome's Wolf Tales series of children's books as a tie to Saxby's devoted companion. 2026 will see the release of the second book in the Saxby Series: The Art of Recompense; a new children's book: Feather and the Prince; and the standalone romance novel: Chellbie. Plans for the future include the third and fourth book in the Saxby Series: The Long Road Home and A Winter's Grace, as well as the first book in a potential new series called the Dark Dragon Wars: Eisa Fortunis.
 

Home is outside Phoenix, Arizona, where nine months of the year it's simply too hot for anything outside. The remaining months are filled with his wife, two dogs, and classic cars. Before cancer, there were custom Harleys too, all sold now except one unfinished build, perhaps intentionally dragged out, fearing its completion would signify the end of a time he loved.
 

The greatest champion of this work has been a wife of forty-three years, the first reader of every draft of every story, the one who said The Lost Equation: Mystery Through Time was too good for only one reader.
 

What keeps the writing going? The hope is simple: that readers can close the final page feeling they didn't waste their time. Perhaps, for a few hours, they got lost somewhere else.
 

Sometimes that's enough. Sometimes that's everything.

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The author lives in Arizona with his wife and dogs, his cars, and one unfinished Harley.