Writing for pleasure during the past forty years, I began writing fifteen years ago with the intent of casting my net into the world of publication. A few stories and poems appeared eventually in various journals, both small and university, such as The Chaminade Literary Review of Chaminade University, Honolulu, Hawaii, The Silhouette of Shawnee State University, Portsmouth, Ohio, Evergreen Chronicles, Minneapolis, Minnesota, The Vincent Brothers Review, Fairborn, Ohio and The Aguilar Expression, Webster, Pennsylvania. I've garnered a few awards for my writing: in 2001, Runner-Up, and in 1987, Honorable Mention, in Honolulu Magazine's annual Fiction Contest; and in 1988 4th prize in OHA [Office of Hawaiian Affairs]'s "Year of the Hawaiian" contest.

I became a permanent resident of the island of O’ahu in 2003, first out in the country on the Windward side and then back into the city, Wai’kiki. But for years the islands have been the inspiration for my writing, especially Living in Darkness. Detectives, Paul Noa, Nick Keone and George Maikai’moku are derived from and are composites of locals I have met and seen; the local patois in the books derives from good listening skills; my plot techniques are a result of extensive readings in the mystery genre, which are re-readings and re-re-readings: as a writer one never stops learning. Alas, paradise is changing; it can’t be helped. Unfortunately, the changes sometimes are not for the good. It is this idea that is the “inspiration” for my mysteries: conflicts between the ways - old and new – on the islands; family ties that are breaking down; prejudices that erupt into conflicts and death; the ever present upsurge in the cost of living on the islands; the greed of the outsider and the sufferer, often the native or local torn from his land.