My journey into the world of publishing has been interesting, to say the least, yet quite the adventure in itself! 
 
When I was young, I strived to be in the film business.  Though this is a fairly recent venture into the publishing world, I have always been a story-teller at heart.  At a young age, I discovered my love of the movies and just had this urge to write stories and produce my own movies with all my little buddies.  It was just me, my imagination and a video camera back then.  I pursued that dream for so long, until an opportunity in my current line of work came about.  With a wife and two girls at home, and struggling to make ends meet, I took the job in 2009  
 
My passion for story telling never left me, however.  The ideas in my head were like torture, as adventures never lived out, and they longed to escape.  I started writing my first serious manuscript for "The Baptist" and ventured into publishing in 2013.  It's been very challenging, but I went on to self-publish all three novels in the series of "The Baptist" in 2017.  I published my fourth work in 2021; a stand-alone novel called "WILDMEN".  Just this year, my fifth novel was released; "The Things That Are Not", an epic underdog story with the battle for Heaven & Hell as the backdrop.  

All of my schooling and background reflects creative arts in some way or another.  I was accepted into the visual arts program in high school, which included sketching, painting and sculpting, to name a few mediums.  While going to school there, I became involved in the Audio-Visual team, which opened up a whole new medium of story-telling to me.  It was the end of the nineties and going into the two-thousands, which were spawning whole new technological advancements in amateur video production.  Because of those opportunities, I fell more in love with the type of medium and really started to focus my efforts in this field.  It was fun!  It was exciting!  When I sat at the computer to either write my amateur scripts or edit a scene we had filmed, it was sheer freedom!  I could create whatever I wanted, despite what I was used to and what every English or Art teacher told me I couldn't.  English class, for me, ironically enough (as an aspiring author) was one of those things that I wanted to like, but just couldn't.  In theory, English was everything I wanted, but I just found myself being bored.  There were too many rules, too many do's and don'ts.  In terms of story-telling, I always considered myself to be a little more unorthodox than the norm.  If an artist can't break the rules, just a little bit, then what is the point of art?
 
I have many more ideas in the ol' think-tank, one of which I'm currently working on and cannot wait to finish, along with a life long passion of mine to write my memoirs to my three sons. 
 
I do this as one of those proverbial "side-gigs", hustling it on the side and literally selling my books out of the back of my trunk and online.  People often ask me, "With five kids and a full-time job, where do you find the time to write five books?"  My answer is always the same.  I tell them, "Writing the books is the easy part.  To clarify, the writing comes naturally.   I write as it flows and in between the spaces of life.  Writing amidst real life is actually inspiring!  It's not that anyone can publish a piece of writing.  It does take much time and deliberation.  I find it's marketing strategy and getting people to give a damn about what you've written that's the hard part!"
 
As an Independent Canadian Author, I like to think I have something different to say to the world.  I find a lot of unoriginal stuff out there, in this world of sequels, prequels, remakes and reboots.  I write original and Dramatic Fiction and My goal is to bring daring and original ideas to the market and give people the books they didn't even know they were searching for.