Surrounded : Paperback

I am a lover of words used well. I love to know --- the sweep, grit, and odd corners of history; the chemistry of dreams, the design of fish scales, and what, again, are time crystals? What is daily life like today in Accra, or . . . ? At heart, I am a poet and a counter-puncher.

But you gotta make a living. I have spent all of my career in publishing, working at and running newspapers and magazines in cities big and small up and down the West Coast. My modest personal publishing history includes poetry in Portland Review, a Poe/Dupin locked room mystery in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, sci-fi non-fiction and book reviews for small publications, and my novel "Tortuga -- A Confection of Blood and Gold." And there is more in the pipeline.b