I am launching this website as a way to help find an audience for my books and to help people who like action stories to find characters that might spark their interest. My basic approach is to write the stories I want to tell, based on what I know best and what keeps me engaged in the creative process, which I find very pleasurable.

What I do know is that sporting events are some of the most widely consumed forms of entertainment in this country, and in most of the world too, for that matter. We may not care about the soccer matches so much in the U.S., but in Europe and Latin America these contests carry huge cultural significance. Literary people may not be a prime audience for sports, and sports fans may not be waiting for the next literary masterpiece to appear, but people who like sports are hardly illiterate, they just need for the right types of stories to appear. So, with that in mind, I at no point try to dumb down my works to appeal to just adolescent minds, for instance. And I hope I don’t write in a style that loses the attention of a wide audience.

I think people of many age groups can understand my writings. But the name of the game in my stories is action. When I was young, I became a fan of comic books for a time, and what I found was that the best comics had complex characters who had the same personal problems as their readers. This device made these superhuman characters human and accessible. But at the same time, dwelling on this side of a character for too long would make any work like a soap opera. At some point, the superhero had to put these concerns aside and go kick some butt. All of us have to do the same thing to navigate through jobs that insist on consistent daily performance.

I specialize in mixing detailed game descriptions with realistic drama about the difficulties of ordinary life. My heroes are exceptional at what they do, for that is the point of admiring top sports figures, but they are real human beings, and I expect readers to laugh at loud on occasion and perhaps shed a tear or two along the way. I think caring about what happens to the quarterback of the Portland Bobcats in my work Promised Land is similar to the blind poet Homer engaging his audience in the triumphs and tragedies of Achilles and other Greek and Trojan heroes in his ancient classics. We experience vicarious emotions in works of art and in sporting events, caring about people who don’t exist or people who are real but who we will never know, but we experience these emotions, nonetheless.