I've always been a songwriter, musician and artist. I have also been an avid reader my entire life, and possess a collection of read books well into the many hundreds. My Mother and Father both have a passion for writing and reading, with a collection ten-fold greater than my own. The love is not just for the story, put all aspects of the written, or typed word, right down to that sweet, dry smell of a 50 year old novella that has sat, unread, on a dead man's shelf, only to be dropped off, unceremoniously on thrift store doorstep. So, I throw my hat and my heart into the ring.