I am married with two adult children.  Professionally, I am a business consultant and aspiring author.  I am also a Stage IV cancer survivor - at least so far!   I write about my battle with terminal cancer in Mortal Musings.

I have been an avid Sci-Fi fan all my life.  I have always yearned to publish a book and eventually become an established author.  My first effort started in seventh grade.  It reached 500 hand-written pages by the end of the year -- almost all written during various classes.  

I started writing my first book, Prime Directive: Earth, over 20 years ago.  I modeled two of the lead characters after my children.  The problem was that they were 8 and 11 when I finished the first draft.  When I later decided to do a major rewrite, they were older so I had to change the characters as well.  But I was not able to get it published.  It sat on my hard drive for years and years, and many moves.  When I got cancer, I became more determined to publish.  It still took me a couple of years as work and life kept getting in the way.  I can only hope that I can achieve enough success at writing that I can devote more and more time to it as it is truly a labor of love.

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