This has been a long journey. I actually began writing in grade school. I wrote my stories longhand and the pages would be passed around among my classmates. I knew then that I was destined to be a writer.
Being a writer was my destination, but there were many detours along the way.
I married my childhood sweetheart, the love of my life, and she has remained at my side for more than forty years.
I would often start writing while working at various non-skilled and skilled jobs. Those manuscripts were never completed.
At the age of twenty-seven, I knew that I needed a radical change in my life and joined the Air Force. Even while I was standing guard duty in boot camp, I continued to write.
Once out of boot-camp, and after completion of technical school, I was given the opportunity to realize another of my dreams. I have always wanted to teach and, due to a shortage of instructors, I was offered an instructor position in the Cryptography School. There I worked with some of the best friends that I have ever known.
I taught myself computer programming and gained minor fame among users of a certain 8-bit computer. (My fame lives on–just search the Internet for “Carl England the Defeater.”
But despite the many paths I have traveled, I always drifted back to writing. After many false starts and incomplete novels (and a few short stories that never found a market,) I decided that it was time to make a commitment to finally complete a novel.
That commitment produced my first novel, “Alphabet Soup.”
I continue to write. I have four published novels (soon to be five), a self-published novella, and several self-published short stories. I also have three short stories that have been included in anthologies.
The third book in the Alphabet Soup series, “The Alphabet Code” is currently with my publisher undergoing the first round of edits. Expect it to be released later this year.
I am currently working on a Time-Travel science fiction novel.
My favorite places to write are on the beach (naturally) and in the gazebo (pictured above) that I designed and built along with a little help from my wife.