Ricky Ginsburg has changed hats several times in his 58 years. He spent over 15 years as the purchasing agent for one of the northeast's largest wholesale stationers before leaving the company to become an independent software designer in the mid 80s. Moving to South Florida in 1998, he became a successful landscape and garden designer, creating tropical paradises for homeowners throughout Palm Beach, Broward, and Dade counties. His garden, on a quarter acre of land in western Boca Raton, contains over a thousand different plants, three water features, and forty different species of palm trees.As an author, he began writing short fiction in October 2006 and has penned nearly 300 stories in a plethora of genres since. Currently he has over fifty pieces published in dozens of magazines and ezines. "A Tasty Murder", Ricky's second Kindle offering, blossoms from his college years in Boston in the 70s, an obsession with tropical gardening, and a firm belief that the three highest paid professions should be cops, firefighters, and teachers