About Me

This is how it all began for me:  Armed with a BS in Engineering and an MBA, I’ve been working as a consultant for the last fifteen years.  You know what it’s like to work as a consultant—as Scott Adams (I think) once said, if you knew someone who once drove by a chemical plant, in the world of consulting it made you an expert on chemicals.  Life was good; then one day I realized I knew someone who once drove by a book store, and so it began…

Well, the realities of life never catch up with the jokes—life sucks in that respect.  As it happens, I have worked in the chemical industry (among many other industries, I might shamelessly add); and I have written this book—neither of which was an easy thing to do. 

Writing a book was harder than working in business, at least for me.  First of all, I had to find the time to write.  And to re-write.  And then to re-write it all over again.   All through this writing I had to learn a whole new set of rules—for example, as Chekhov (I think) once said, if you introduce a pretty woman in chapter one, you have to show her naked by chapter three.  

Then came the editing and proof-reading bit—you simply don’t rely on Microsoft to check your spelling and grammar.  But then, I never trusted Microsoft with anything, so I was prepared for that.

So here I am, five years and a ton of re-writes later, ready to peddle my first novel.  Hope you like it—if you don’t, well, I'll keep trying. 

And, oh—thank you for visiting this web-site!