What inspired you to write your memoir?
So many crazy things happened in my life that I just had to write about them. Managed to fill three volumes so far. Maybe now people will understand what makes me tick.
About your Book:
I was born on Friday the 13th, the only Friday the 13th incidently, in the year I was born. I have led an interesting life, with many strange, odd incidents. However some good things happened which you see when I show you the wonderful letters my “Pen Pal” from Hong Kong wrote me and finally after six years we got together. I write about school, college baseball, bad jobs with great satire.
How did you decide how to publish your book and where is it published through:
Since regular book publishers treat no authors like the plague I searched for an indie e-book publisher. I found that publisher at Smashwords.com
How do you see writing a Memoir as different from writing other genres of books?
Yes, must be from the heart. Must so you warts and all. Must reveal secrets you would rather not tell
Author Bio:
I totally confused my New Jersey and went to college at the University of Arizona – had never been further west than Philadelphia. Got a degree in History & Governemnt and strated law school. Interrupted by the Nixon lotto when I drafted into the Army in 1970. After two amazing years (in Vol. 2 of my autobiography), I went back to law school. Finished 1 1/2 years of law school (guess I’m a half-assed lawyer) and worked for the City of Tucson in the City Clerk’s office. Then weirdly got hired as a Park Ranger out of the blue (also somewhere in the autobiography of 3 volumes.
Then the Park Rangers were disbanded (Jim Ronstadt, Linda’s brother needed $250,000 to repair his new wiped out golf course) so I headed to Las Vegas to make my living betting on baseball games (I had a system!) Of that didn’t work (see why my autobiography is aptly titled “My Only Crime Was Being Born”?
So I went back to college at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas and got a second degree in Accounting.
Since then I have been an auditor with the US Army and now the Air Force written audit reports for over 30 years. I first wrote my book in the 1987 in Seoul, Korea. I have extensively revised and improved my investing book since then. Also I have written my own newsletter showing the best stocks for my book for over 15 years.
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