Life Stories

Living in Queens, NY, I decided my life in New York had become lonely and wearisome—and stagnated, as well. The prospect of marrying my live-in girlfriend was dwindling, and it was time to leave. But where? Back to California? I had no job, and apartments in Southern California were exorbitantly expensive. Tucson seemed a better…

Over many years, I had written remnants of about a dozen novels, mostly science-fiction and fantasy, but also historical fiction, western and mainstream. My first completed novel was a science fiction novel I wrote during my year at the University of Southern California in 1978. Stephen Longstreet was the professor teaching the course at the…