“I enjoy all types of writing and my first published article appeared in Skin Diver Magazine in 1983.  Since then I have written everything from non-fiction and poetry to technical manuals for the scuba industry.”

The Lone Star Used Submarine Company

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Quarterfinalist

     The Lone Star Used Submarine Company is the story of down-on-his-luck commercial diver, Buck Davies, whose lifelong passion for the ocean leads him to a dreary existence of underwater scrap salvage and broken relationships leaving him dreaming of a better life.  He believes that his big break has come when he plans to outfit an old World War II submarine as a tourist charter vessel showing people the underwater wonders off the coast of Texas.

     With a group of friends posing as an international maritime brokerage firm, Buck enlists eccentric oil billionaire, Allen Jon, to finance the project.  The group flies to Cuba to purchase an old submarine only to find too late that the sale was a multi-million dollar scam by a corrupt Cuban official.

     But Allen Jon reveals himself to be much more than an eccentric as he uses his resources and ingenuity to turn the tables on the fraud and flee in the Cuban submarine.  Buck Davies and his friends unwittingly become the inept crew aboard a rogue submarine struggling to get back home in a comical chase across the Caribbean.  Along the way they encounter colorful characters, pirates and romance as they are pursued from one tropical island to the next managing to stay one half step ahead of the world’s navies.  In the end, Buck Davies finds a love reignited with a childhood sweetheart and his life turned around in a way he never imagined.

The Truth About UFOs,

 Aliens and All That

The Truth About UFOs, Aliens and All That is an abstract work of fiction that asks if UFOs then finds that the real question is, “What is real?”.  Obsessive compulsive protagonist, Cassandra Vega is haunted by nightmarish visions of alien abduction.  She is convinced that it’s part of her psychological dysfunction until it begins to manifest itself throughout the human race.  Eventually, the entire world is threatened as the perception between real and unreal begins to blur.

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A Jesuit In Belize

    This biography of Father William ‘Buck’ Stanton follows the life and
times of a Jesuit missionary in turn-of-the century Central America.
It paints a portrait of a gentle priest that traveled the world as an
explorer, scientist, teacher and humanitarian.  Though recently
updated, the story was originally published in the 1920s and captures
the coarse social attitudes of the day.

     The reader gets an intimate look at a good natured explorer fluent in
three languages that could kill and eat an alligator on his way
through the jungle to teach children to read and preside over
weddings.  It is also a snapshot of a turbulent time in world history
lost to the memory of recent generations.

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