(Here’s a longer, more official-sounding version.)

 

Talking to my mother about writing one day, I told her I thought writing was just a part of being creative, and just a part of being an artist — when she gave me the strangest look. "No," she replied, "this is something different."

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I came home that day and stewed over her comment for quite a while, but I finally had to agree with her, because not many artists write, and not many writers paint.

 

For years, people have asked me how I can do both at the same time. (How the hell does she do it?) Not that painting or writing is comes easy for me, but I first began drawing and and painting by the tender age of 2.  Throughout my life I gained a lot of experience, especially during high school, and later in college, at the University Of Florida. I briefly majored in drawing and painting but decided it was best to apply to the Graphic Design college. I was accepted. 

 

Fast forward to 2012. By this time I was married with a family and satisfied with my graphics career. I had worked hard at different jobs and proved I wasn't half bad as a designer, having won five Golden Addy Awards. It was about that time I woke up with an idea from a dream. ( I have many vivid dreams.) So I sat up and decided to write it out. I enjoyed it and became a little bit obsessive with my characters. Eventually Escape To Phobos became part of a trilogy.

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Art for me is a passion and a purpose. As an artist I paint out a feeling. Inside a painting I have words in mind but it is a visual creation. On a canvas  I cannot paint out a word/name. But with writing I can. Someone will know what I have said, because I've gone ahead and written the words out — inside my books. 

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