I am a romantic, with a pesky streak of prankster that surfaces from time to time and I’m surely younger than the calendar says.  I’ve been a project person since I was a kid, driven to create things from ideas.  This led me into an engineering career, still ongoing, and has stoked a long-lived yearning to write novels.


In 1976, my high school sweetheart Nancy and I wed.  We’ve both always lived in rural west-central Ohio.  During the late 1970s and early 1980s we had three children, son-daughter-son.  They, along with some special kid-in-laws they’ve brought into the family, have given us seven grandkids at current count and they are delights.  

I dabbled in writing over the years, and in 2008 committed to give it my best shot.  Since then, I’ve published INVITATION, CommonGuy.com, and Two & A Half Minutes and am currently working on a fourth novel.  Nancy is always my first critical reader and keeps me from getting too far off track.   

Authors who stick with a genre or create series characters develop readerships that know what to expect from them resulting in greater potential sales volume.  Yet I hesitate to narrow the breadth of circumstances or types of characters I probe in my novels.  I want to write about a variety of topics and write stories I’d like to read.  So I swim against the tide and delve into divergent topics and personalities.  I am drawn, though, to a few common undercurrents.  Central characters in my novels are driven by an underlying sense of family.  The frameworks for my novels involve ordinary people who inject themselves into extraordinary circumstances – circumstances that seem beyond the realm of believability, but that might be more plausible than they first appear.  

INVITATION develops around the alleged presence of unseen aliens who might be friendly – if they exist – but who might also have an ulterior agenda and the wherewithal to accomplish it.  Just how would an average person, engineer John Resnic, who is drawn into the midst of churning perils, react?  How would governments around the world react?

The backdrop for CommonGuy.com is the USA; times are good, the President is cruising toward reelection, and he and his top officials are as corrupt as they come.  Architect Daryl Martin is patriotic, intelligent, and fed up with unethical government.  Could his efforts to “contribute to the solution” hurl him into a political ring of fire?  How far might ruthless leaders go to put a stop to exploding popular support for a grass roots reformer?

In Two & A Half Minutes a girl who suffered an unbearable childhood in 1960s mid-America has just turned twenty when she makes a confused decision to leave this world.  The resulting near-death-experience transforms Eve Kessler's perceptions of her life - but not its circumstances.  Forced separation from her young son who is her only thread is her soul's torment.  She fights to resist her "friends" and her internal demons from dragging her back.  Can she grind through the maze of what is in order to reach the mirage in her head of what should be?

I think the books are good reads.  I hope you take a chance on them.  Let me know what you think!

A Note From My Partner, Nancy Miller

I am committed to helping Don become a successful author, partially because he can write from wherever we are and that means we can visit our children and grandchildren without interrupting his creative flow.  Mainly though, I can help him achieve a dream and that makes me happy too!           

PREVIEW TWO & A HALF MINUTES
Eve Kessler's life is a catastrophe. It's midnight  and she's driving alone drunk and wallowing in self-pity Eve impulsively decides enough is enough, but then does an about-face and attempts to avert the crash. What she experiences during the 2-1/2 minutes her heart stops is powerful. Is it enough to enable her to overcome the ordeals that overwhelm her? READ MORE.