A lover of the arts, I was only briefly sidetracked by a career in law. Shortly after law school, I went to film school to study screenwriting and directing. I've written a dozen screenplays and had several produced. I've been writing novels and memoirs for almost twenty years. After summary rejections by the big publishers, I decided to self-publish my first novel, the quirky afterlife romance/adventure I HATED HEAVEN. My next book, a memoir about the passing of my father, DAD WAS A CARPENTER, won the Grand Prize in the 1999 Writer's Digest National Self-Published Book Awards. Within days I had secured a top-flight agent and in just a matter of weeks, we made a deal with HarperCollins to reprint the book, which was released in 2001. Thereafter, I published two more books with HarperCollins, in the Parables of the Carpenter series: THE WELCOMING DOOR (2002) and CITY ON A HILL (2004). I've also continued publishing with Alta Films Press, a small independent publisher: THE CARPENTER OF GALILEE (2003), OKI'S ISLAND (2006), and LIGHTLAND (2008). In 2011 and 2012, I published three books with Sweetwater Books: THE WISE MAN RETURNS (2011), DAD, ARE YOU THERE? (2012), and PARABLES FOR TODAY (2012).In 2013, I departed from the primarily spiritual and inspirational kind of book I write, to create the WWII scrapbook of my father's adventure as a bomber pilot in the Pacific: FLYING WITH THE FLAK PAK. Over the last two years I have taken it to scores of air shows, where it has been well-received by those of the Greatest Generation and of my generation, their children.I am currently working on a book about the most under-appreciated and little known bomber of WWII, the Consolidated B-24 "Liberator," due out in 2016.