The Clay Cantrell mystery adventure series marked a new departure for me, what amounted to my third career. I spent over twenty years as a reference book author--eventually publishing eleven reference books. Since then I've spent another twenty years buying and renovating old houses in Virginia. With Lost Treasure: Clay Cantrell Mystery Adventure #1, published in 2012, I finally realized my dream of writing novels.

It’s been one of those long, winding roads to here. Starting out on it many years ago, I was a young, would-be novelist looking for experience. Now, well into my seventies, I’m just looking for time enough to write my novels.

To date I have written three mystery-thriller novels for the Clay Cantrell series: Lost Treasure; Killer Fog--The Veil of Mist Shrouds a Deadly Conspiracy; and The Girl Behind the Wall--Edgar Allan Poe, the Girl, and the Mysterious Raven Murders. I am currently at work on a fourth, The Nine Lives of Harry Bellamy, Counterfeiter.

And, yes, I'm still renovating houses.