“For me the secret to being an author is ‘just do the work.’ I make it a point to put in time on my writing every day.”

I chose creative writing as a profession right out of college, but after being a broke poet for a decade I entered a 20-year career directing the design of medical software and helped produce two of the preeminent practice management and electronic health records systems. Along the way I became an expert in the field and wrote two college textbooks. One became a national bestseller. I left the software company, became a full-time author and wrote six more textbooks. Two of those became bestsellers.

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Between textbooks I turned my attention back to my creative writing origins. I began working on stage plays and then my first published novel, Lancelot’s Grail. Since, I have written two more novels and a biography. A fourth novel is in development.

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I was writing poetry even before college and have had nearly 300 poems published in literary journals, and chap books; plus five volumes of my collected poems. Currently, I am a regular contributor to Ann Arbor Review International Journal of Poetry. Poems published in recent issues are listed below.

How do I go from poetry to computer programming, from textbooks to novels? For me balancing the left brain / right brain is not that difficult. I find all of it a swim in the creative flow.