Goldfield Ranch Book Club

What an amazing evening with the Goldfield Ranch Book Club. They picked HOVER as their April read. The cool thing is that many of the ladies gave the book to their husbands to read, so they came tonight, too!

Thank you all for such a warm reception, great conversation, and insightful questions! It was truly a pleasure.

Jazz in the Hills - Friday, March 17th

I'll be speaking at the Emerson Art Gallery on Friday, March 17th, as part of the Jazz in the Hills program. The evening starts at 6pm. Great way to start your weekend, yes? Please, join us!

Shifley Lecture Series at USNA on video!

The Naval Academy Museum put together a nice video for my talk as part of the Shifley Lecture series on Feb 22nd.

Enjoy!

Shifley Lecture Series - US Naval Academy

I had the great honor to speak at the United States Naval Academy as part of the Shifley Lecture Series this weekend. It was an amazing few days on many levels. I was able to catch up with some of my 1989 classmates, meet staff and faculty, and roam the grounds of my alma mater.

I spoke about the path I took in flying inland search and rescue, which was especially fun with so many naval and marine corps aviators in the audience.

Thanks again to Naval Academy Museum director, Claude Berube, and also to Grant Walker. You both made this an easy and pleasurable visit! Thanks also to the Shifley family and the Class of 1950 for sponsoring this series. I was so honored to be asked to speak as part of this.

As a fun side note, my classmates and I were speaking with the museum director in his office after the talk. Little did we know, we were sitting on the "Patriot Games" couch. You can see below that I was sitting where Harrison Ford sat so many years ago!

Fountain Hills Friends of the Library

I had a wonderful time with the Fountain Hills Friends of the Library today. The rainy weather drove people indoors to learn about CLEAR TO LIFT and inland search and rescue. I enjoyed meeting several up and coming authors, too. Great to talk about the writing process and publishing. Thank you again to the Fountain Hills Library and the Fountain Hills Friends of the Library for an awesome event!

DC Ranch Women's Club

Thank you, DC Ranch Women's Club for such a great reception today. I loved our discussion on all things navy and also talking about HOVER and CLEAR TO LIFT. What a wonderful group!

HOVER awarded GOLD medal by Military Writers Society of America

I received some great news from the Military Writers Society of America. HOVER was awarded a GOLD medal in the literary fiction category for 2016! What a nice end-of-the-year treat!