I grew up on a small lake in the upper Midwest of the USA and explored the nature surrounding me, with miles of trails, rivers and creeks branching out from my family home on that lake. I could travel across my lake, slip into a tributary creek or river, and go up or down it for hours with my small boat and its little outboard motor. My trusted dog sometimes joined me, standing at the prow like a warrior sentinel. Other times, he would rather sleep in the comfort of his home.

He was often fickle like that,sometimes deciding he needed a “Canadian Walkabout” in the neighborhoods around the lake and getting into trouble. Our family is of a long line of Quebecers,where the women of our line applied such a euphemism to describe their men who would go roaming about the land in search of adventure. Anyway, I remember the little rascal fondly.

Like many at the time of my youth, I experimented with some forbidden things, things that quickly grew old. Esoteric matters caught my attention for a time, and I found a young lady whohad similar thoughts about reincarnation and karma. As I pursued college and tried my hand at fine arts, I found my left hand was not so good at the fine part. With that same lady, we married, and I fell into the technology sector to make a living. Then, I switched my major from fine arts to English - Creative Writing.

After a failed first attempt at writing a set of great fantasy novels, work, raising a family, and life took over my time. Writing faded as a priority. Yet it resurfaced years later with a Gaelic adventure based in Celtic Ireland that started as a dream - literally. We traveled across the pond to see that land, and their people captured my heart and imagination.

That was when I wrote the first edition of Stone of Destiny and self-published it. That version was frankly not very good. As we moved from the Upper Midwest to the Great Northwest to keeping working in the tech sector, the Irish still held my heart. After twenty years, I took up the notion to rewrite that first effort, I realized not only was the prose not good, the story was rushed. Thus Destiny Cycle was born and one book became three books! And, now, most likely four books. After getting the first two novels in the cycle edited, I launched them as the First Edition. Then with more feedback, I found a (fantasic) new editor, and Blades of Destiny Revised Edition has now been released! Stone of Destiny of Destiny Revised Edition will follow in the coming weeks.