I am more of a reader than I am a writer. That is, I read every day. I have had stories published in Barnes and Noble's "100 Crooked Little Crime Stories" and "100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories." I share the book with Charles Dickens, Jack London, O. Henry, Ed Hoch, Bill Pronzini and Abraham Lincoln. I have had short stories published in some small magazines. I have written one unpublished novel and collaborated on another unpublished novel. I am a retired insurance agent born in 1942. Don't laugh. Tom Clancy was an insurance agent.