Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to them sound and smell and light and all the rest that can’t be in books. The book needs you.

I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles and key figures of the American Civil War - for most of my life. I pick up a book here or there or see a documentary or talk with an expert in the subject, and my curiosity about the one area of study and discovery always leads to another.

Read like a wolf eats and write every day. Every. Single. Day.

The person who reads can bail, but the person who doesn't fails.

When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.

Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.