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Links to Some of my Favorite Websites:
  • Literary Market Place
  • California Writers Club
  • Publishers Weekly
  • Association of Authors' Representatives
Other Links of Interest:
  • National Writers Union
  • Writers Guild of America
  • Historical Novel Society
  • Horror Writers Association
  • Novelists Inc.
  • Authors Guild

My Oil Paintings


"Yosemite Valley at Dusk". Completed August 2008. My largest oil painting yet, with a canvas measuring 22" by 28"
"Elk in Snow" - Oil on 30" saw blade. Completed March 2012. This blade (donated by Bill Wathen) is over 40 years old and originated from a saw mill in Klamath Falls, Oregon.
"Black Butte" - completed Jan. 2008. A prominent rock outcropping near Orland, CA
"Ever Vigilant - Global Hawk over Afghanistan". Oil on canvas, 18" by 24". Painted exclusively for Airman First Class, Michael Allee
"Burney Falls" - completed Feb. 2008. A location I once lived near
"Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii" - completed Feb. 2008. Another location I've lived near
"Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains at Twilight". Oil on canvas, 30" x 40" (completed May 2011)
"Sutter Buttes across the Sacramento River" - completed Jan. 2008
"Humpback Whale off the coast of Terceira", completed Feb. 2009. Oil on canvas (24" x 30"). Terceira is one of the Azore islands of Portugal
"Asian Landscape", completed July 2009 (Oil on canvas). Painted exclusively for John Allee, Computer Scientist with NAVAIR
"Fisherman's Pier" - completed way back in 1974! This one is over 30 years old!
"Lake Trout Fishing" - another old painting finished way back in 1974!