I left my hometown in Ohio in '67 and moved to California. First, Aptos just south of Santa Cruz, then Berkeley. I didn't want to work so I invented a board game which sold to the second publisher I pitched it to. Playboy bought the second game I created (LUST - a sex-drinking game), although they never published it. I lived in Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Argentina where I owned two corporations and had offices in the financial district of Buenos Aires. After living in Cali, Colombia for 18 mths, I returned to the USA in the summer of 1995 and wrote two novels in 3 months. The first entitled Cartel, a fiction novel about a U.S. citizen who meets and falls in love with a Colombian girl in the 60's. He soon morphs into a powerful international drug merchant through her family's drug smuggling activities The 2nd fiction novel is Emerald Beach, a tale about high school kids who get caught up with international Mafiosos and have to fight it out on an island on Lake Erie.