Baldwin, Lee

I am a novelist in Ashland, Oregon. I have waited 25 years to say that, through a half-dozen careers including my own creative copy writing agency in Vancouver, B.C. and Hawaii, operating an advertising business in Honolulu, and 17 years as a human interface designer in Silicon Valley. It was worth it. My characters often have a quirky edge, because I see human foibles as launch points of dramatic conflict. That and my musical ear help me shape dialog and narrative into rhythms of dramatic reveal, turning points, and cadences. Escape fiction usually satisfies the reader's hunger for vicarious