<p>After 22 years’ service as a Marine officer, Dirk left the Corps for a second career in the business world as a district manager and corporate trainer. In the backwash of the 2008 financial crisis, Dirk left the corporate world and turned to writing full time.</p><p/><p>Dirk’s first novel, <em>West of Tomorrow,</em> is a tale of betrayal, misplaced love, and the phoenix living in all of us. His second book, <em>Best Case Scenario. </em>It is the first in a series<em> </em>following Nyra Westensee’s journey into professional life, womanhood, and an evolving human full of life, purpose, and promise. Dirk is currently working on book 2 of the series. <em>Tier Zero </em>the first volume in his new science fiction series of first contact between Earth and the Knolan Concordant, due out in late 2019.</p><p/><p>Dirk lives in Laguna Niguel, California with his wife, two psychotic cats, and a nine-year-old Ball Python named Corona. A compulsive gym rat, surfer/shaper, snow skier, photographer, and woodworker, Dirk is also a member of the Southern California Writers’ Association and facilitates the bi-weekly meetings of the Advanced Fiction Group—a tight-knit critique group of published and aspiring authors.</p>
