Mayes, D. R.

My dad Edward Mayes and my Uncle Jack fostered my reading curiosity at a very young age. My dad would read the bible for hours every day with an occasional Zane Grey western thrown in and my Uncle Jack read Zane Grey and any other western novel constantly. I was amazed how any one could read for hours almost every day. I guess my love of reading started when I nine years old. I discovered Jules Verne and read many of his classics. Many times I sat in the classroom with one of his novels hidden behind my text books. To be able to escape to a magical world of the writers imagination had me hooke...