Carl Lyle Jenkins is an accomplished visual artist, an award winning broadcast journalist and news director, an author of books and articles on a variety of topics, and the publisher/owner of Somewhere Press. The author's visionary artwork found in Secrets of the Laughing Wave are digitally created collages that incorporate his original oil paintings, photography, and images he created using computer painting and special effects programs. Since selling his first oil painting at age 12, Carl has created hundreds of original works of art that have been displayed in shows and galleries on the US