Welcome
Welcome to my website, and thanks for your interest in my books. Here you will find a reasonably thorough portrayal of my work through early 2023. I have continued to write and publish since then, but in my late seventies I find that the digital procedures involved in maintaining the website have outrun my patience. At this point it seems to me that time I spend fussing and grumbling my way through the mysteries of coding and formatting new material could be much better and more enjoyably spent writing something new. Thus I will no longer update it, but will instead settle for offering it as a nice overview of the work I completed during the first fifty years of my writing career. I am further content to keep it "live" because the Contact function is still helpful as a way to communicate with the occasional correspondent.
On a sunny and memorable day in 1979, I stood in the post office in Manchester Center, Vermont, and unwrapped the package containing the advance copy of my first book, Old Yellowstone Days. As I stood there staring at it in wonder, I realized that with its publication I had already amounted to more than I ever expected to; from there on out, anything I did would be for extra credit.
Much to my surprise and continuing delight, there have been many more books since then. In complicated and sometimes mysterious ways, books cause other books, and it has been my amazing good fortune to find many subjects to explore, study, and write about. A wise friend once said that "writing is thinking." Every book I write, no matter the subject, fiction or non-fiction, gives me a new opportunity to come to terms with things that matter to me--and that I hope will matter to you, too.
But, as the saying goes, enough about me. This website is about the books. Click on "Books" and you will find most of the work I've published since Old Yellowstone Days appeared. I've divided the list into five general categories: Fiction, Yellowstone, Wilderness and Parks, Bears, and Fly Fishing. Click on any title to learn more about the book, read some reviews, and perhaps see an excerpt from the book.
Though I've often been lucky enough to find new publishers for older books that have gone out of print, quite a few of my books are indeed out of print. But these days "out of print" doesn't mean "unavailable." With very little effort, either through your local bookstore or on line, you should be able to find any book on this list.
That's pretty much it. There is a "News and Notes" heading that reported on my more recent work up to 2023. There is a "Biography" heading too; though I'm uneasy with this sort of self-promotional narrative, web experts say it's important that it be there, so I have dutifully filled it up with stuff about me. But what really matters are the books. I hope you find some opportunities there too.