After more than thirty years as a translator and teacher of English as a Second Language, I decided it was due time to write my own books. The first one came to me in a dream. It is a story for children called Little Wing - Who am I? Where am I? What am I? Both, the English and Spanish versions are now available as eBooks for the Kindle and the rest of the magic machines (iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Android Phone, etc.).

I’m not sure as to what motivated me to write; it was more like the realization that writing was what I had been prepared to do all my life. I studied English literature, had my own phototypesetting shop at one time, worked as an English into Spanish translator most of my life and also as an ESL teacher, and I have always enjoyed drawing and painting. See some of my illustrations at the beginning of my short stories.

When I was twenty years old, I was drafted by the US Army and ended up in South Vietnam between November 1967 and November 1968. The experience of war becomes an indelible mark in anyone’s soul. Life has never been quite the same. One tends to enjoy every minute of it and to give thanks for the smallest of things.

My next three books and their respective Spanish translations correspond to a 7-volume series entitled Yah and the Space Cadets, they represent the First, Second and Third Expeditions, i.e., Well Before the Beginning, First Light, and Star Rise. I am writing and illustrating the fourth book now. It will take a few months to be ready.

In the meantime, I wrote a book that guides you in preparing and publishing your own novel, story, recipe book, journal, etc., as an eBook to sell. All my eBooks are being sold by Amazon. I have my own website but prefer to sell through Amazon because this gives me more time to continue writing.