<p>Residing and writing in bucolic southeastern Ohio, a land of natural serenity creates a placidity allowing for the stimulation of the muse, or one might say nothing happens here, so one is not distracted from the work.<br>After a thirty-year stint in the corporate world, I took residence in a century house undertaking to write fiction.<br>My efforts have produced short stories and novels.<br>My aim is to produce work that is entertaining, educational, well-written, interesting and believable.<br>My hope is that the reader deems it so.</p>