Although originally from Western New York, I've spent my adult life on the West Coast from Alaska to California and currently reside with my wife, Ellen, in Portland, Oregon. I've manufactured Brazilian agate wind chimes, managed high-tech IT development groups for fortune five hundred companies and the City of Portland, and had my own startup company. Currently, I'm publishing comic books as Floating Dock Comics (see floatingdockcomics.com). I've written a number of screenplays and longer works and published several short mysteries, but Fire Trap is my first novel.