I was pondering a website update when I came across the image at the right end of the banner. While the woman looks nothing like me, it is an idealized image of a romance writer at work for many readers and fifteen published romances go a long way towards defining me as a romance writer.
I didn't start out as a romance writer, although my first completed manuscript had a strong romantic theme. I wrote because it kept me sane in the pressure cooker world of the offshore oil industry, providing an hour in each day when I had complete control over my environment, something that became more and more precious the higher I climbed.
In 1997, I stepped away from the oil industry and became a full-time writer, first published in 2000 with Saltwater Press, a small Australian publisher of paperbacks. By 2006, when they failed, I was published elsewhere and have since survived the failure of two more publishing firms, each merely delaying the release, or taking some of my books out of circulation. The survivors are shown in the flash presentation to the right and you can read about them on their individual pages. (See the navigation bar at the bottom of the page)  The reviewers extoll their praises and I'm slowly building a fan base who enjoy the reading as much as I enjoy the writing of each story.

What's Happening Now?
In the mid 1970s, I toyed with the idea of becoming a writer. I'd sold two short stories to magazines, now long defunct, and written much longer technical articles that had been well received, but had written nothing novel-length. The first draft of "Coasting" ran to 100,000 plus words and was not very good. The second draft was both better and longer and, by the time I reached the tenth draft, it settled out around 109,000 words. I then spoke to other writers, agents, publishers, anyone who I thought might have information, and decided my financial responsibilities could not be met as a writer and continued my technical career. The ten hard copies of "Coasting", each in their individual lever-arch folder, were consigned to the top of my wardrobe and forgotten, until our eldest daughter found them and read all ten.
She wanted it published, but I considered it too limited to a particular time period and location to be of interest. However, the oldest child learns persistence early and I found myself rewriting the story for the eleventh time as an electronic file. Three more drafts followed and Eternal Press will release the story on August 1st, 2012.
As soon as I have cover art and the edits done, I will add its individual page to this site.

Whiskey Creek Press have accepted "Mitchell's Run"! No cover art or release date yet.