They say one should writer about what he knows. I am a woodsman who lives in a log house in the great northwoods with my wife Lori and daughters Kate and Maggie. That's why all my work, for 20 years, has a backwoods setting. My adventure stories are set in the 1800s, and my humor pieces are contemporary and set in a backwoods general store I write fiction because I'd rather make it up than look it up. Though I have to smile myself sometimes when I realize all the research I do on the times and places of my stories. I use three seperate Ojibwa Indian language books almost daily. Lori and I started an outdoor adventure magazine 20 years ago as a way to promote and improve my writing. If that did one thing it taught me to meet deadlines. I had to finish every story I started. I didn't have time to start and stop and start again every story idea. I had to finish what I started and some of my most popular works are stories that started slow but eventually found a rythm and turned out great. That and the old saying "writing is rewriting" keeps me on track and writing every day.

Published an outdoor adventure magazine for almost 20 years and writen and self published three books of short stories. I have completed an adventure/love story novel and am now desperately searching for a publisher. I am currenly working on a second unpublished novel.

The Woodsman Magazine