In my rather extended life, I have been a musician, a metropolitan cop, a ranch hand and cowboy, and (shudder) a writer of radio and television commercial copy. Now, as just another embattled crusader in the writing wars, the most and least I can claim to be is a teller of stories. For me, a good book moves the story along, has humor even in tragedy (people do laugh at funerals), activates the imagination, and ends too soon. My novels are character driven because life is character driven. As we move through the years, snippets of plots rocket by, but very few ever pan out. Characters, however, stay with us through thick and thin, rich with remembered dialogue and situations, four dimensional on the big screen behind our eyes. Free from director or cinematographer, we create a personal reality in our own Theatre of the Mind.As a writer for grown-ups, my function is entertainment. Because I am a grown-up I indulge myself and write what entertains me: rich characters, tight dialogue, and uncomplicated storylines. Check out my website at www.ironbear-ebooks.com. Or, if you'd just want to jaw here for a while, great! Grizz won't like it, but he's just a cat.