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I had planned a follow up novel to my award winning, The Surgeon, and had written half that novel. After learning of the death of a Veteran I served with, my mind began creating story lines about a novel concerning the Vietnam War. I suddenly felt it imperative to write such a novel, out of […]

I have been using the pen name of Richard Alan. While writing The Soldier, I decided to use my real full name instead of a pen name. My original thought was to use a pen name for historical fiction and my real name for sci-fi novels. As of now, I have no plans for writing

When and why did you decide to become a writer? I’ve enjoyed writing since I was a teen. For a junior-high assignment, I wrote a lengthy, four-thousand-word short story. It was rejected as the subject, my taking a multi-day cross-country drive included, horror of horrors, a female companion. An angry teacher told me this was