I was born in 1952, in Burlington, Vermont, and have lived in Vermont my entire life (except for a year and a half in North Carolina). We moved to Essex Junction when I was four, and that’s where I grew up. I have always wanted to be a writer, but my attempts to write over the years were haphazard, and the results were mediocre.

When I finally retired from full-time work, I began to spend more time writing and guess what? I got better! Funny how that works!

After dabbling in fantasy and science fiction and writing a couple of crime novels filled with gritty realism, I eventually started writing a cozy mystery, and it felt so much more comfortable. That doesn’t mean I will never write anything else, but I feel that I can tell good stories about small-town Vermont, because that is what I know best. After the Storm is the first in what I hope will be a long series of Vermont village mysteries.

I live in Burlington now, only about half a mile from where we lived when I was born. My wife, Jude, tolerates my offbeat sense of humor and ridiculous pedantry because she loves me, and our three cats tolerate me because I feed them and clean their litter boxes.

When I am not writing, I am reading (of course) or cooking or walking on our beautiful bike path along the shore of Lake Champlain.