I spent over twenty years as a Technical Writer and manager and am a published songwriter and subject matter articles. I have recently published a novella titled The Rhythm of the Stone: Collateral Damage. It is available on Amazon.

I am currently working a full length novel: The Long Journey Home about A pilgrimage across Northern Spain during the height of the Cold War. Lots of intrigue, action and adventure in this fast paced story. I have also written an unpublished novel The High Water Mark that is a sequel to Long Journey Home. l am working on a third novel titled The Last Man Standing and a fourth, Tullahoma Mud. These two are stand-alone stories.

I was born in Georgia. I am a graduate of Georgia Southern University and as a military brat, I had a variety of employment and life experiences. My passion is historical fiction and the research this category involves. My writing style is a witty, well researched with intrigue, action and southern charm. I am also a student of the human condition. My influences include Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, H.L.M. Mencken, Bill Bryson, Jon Meacham and the public library. I love history of the weird and other mostly unknown facts. I currently live in Tennessee and go by the name Hal.

What others are saying:

Hal has neither wife nor issue that he is aware of at present. He lives in secluded woods in a cheap doublewide that, from a distance, could be mistaken for a nice cabin. Retrieving the mail or taking out the garbage is an adventure in survival due to a lurking and menacing mountain cat. His wants are simple his needs great but he preservers.

Hal enjoys music starting out annoying his parents and anyone’s earshot with a beat up drum kit. After a raucous rock and roll life, he ditched the sticks for picks, began playing the guitar at eighteen, and hasn’t put one down since. He has also noodled around on a banjo, Dobrobanjo, mandolin, doghouse bass and slide guitar. He tried a fiddle once but he fled in terror believing he had murdered a cat…

Hal used to be athletic but the ravages of this interest combined with time have rendered him useless in this regard. He just lifts weights. He likes to write, cook,

learn, explore, travel and meet interesting people. Hal has a wicked sense of humor and enjoys a good laugh and making others laugh.

His driving goal is to publish. He prays every day that his writing is worthy of your readership.

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