About My Books

 
I’ve always loved travel books. However, they were always non-fiction stories about a man or a woman climbing a mountain, or building a country home, or simply wandering through a foreign land. What they often lacked was intense drama and colorful characters… and even higher stakes. The narrator either accomplished his or her task—or they didn’t.

So I wanted to combine my favorite elements of a travel book and add a more personal adventure—even if it was a fictional one. The fun part was that I could travel to these wonderful places and then use the characters I met, the experiences I had, and the challenges I faced to create a fictional story far greater than my own journey.

So after I was robbed in Rome and found my faith in humanity restored at the Palio festival in Siena, I was inspired to write Bullets, Butterflies, and Italy.

After I ran with the bulls in Pamplona and later came to the rescue of an injured fan at a Blur concert in Hyde Park, I was encouraged to write Bulls, Bands, and London.

And after walking across Spain with hundreds of fellow pilgrims along the Camino de Santiago, I am proud to say I was impelled to write my third exciting adventure, Shadows, Shells, and Spain!

However, these books are more than fictional stories and more than travel memoirs.  Yes, they promise entertaining drama, but they also provide accurate and amusing descriptions of the local people and places you might encounter on your own remarkable adventures!