-writer, author, internationalist

HIGHLIGHTS

Rowed at Henley Royal Regatta
Naval aviator (Royal Navy)
Actor on London’s West End Stage
Oilfield engineer, Louisiana
Motorsports commentator (cars, motorcycles)
Military-aviation writer/photographer—
the Blue Angels, the first photojournalist
to fly/write about Lockheed’s U-2
Business/technology writer, in 12 countries—
the EU, Asia (India, Japan, Russia), and
the Middle East (Israel, Saudi Arabia)
Technology broadcaster (network radio)
Book author (~20 books, fiction/nonfiction)

BOOK LIFE

Nonfiction (~10) includes STRIKE (Ballantine, New York—the U.S. Naval Strike Warfare Center, Fallon, Nevada), WINNING on the WIND (The Soaring Press), the edited memoir of world soaring champion George Moffat, INCIDENTS: Surviving Life on the Edge (The Practical Press), my autobiography/memoir review of 50 unusual incidents in my life and times worldwide, THE WRITING LIFE (The Practical Press)—careers across the many media requiring/rewarding writing skills, and PERSONAL ENERGY: Get it, Keep it, Win with It (The Practical Press).

Novels (~15) include SIERRA SIERRA, a flying novel (Wm. Morrow, New York—the Lincoln Prize), A FULL ACCOUNTING (The Practical Press), co-written with Viktor Belenko, about a U.S. Navy pilot downed in ’Vietnam, extracted to the USSR to train Soviet pilots—one of 614 POW/MIAs lost in SEAsia not repatriated, THE RED PRINCESS (The Practical Press): young San Francisco girl, abused by her parents, suffers from OCD (cutting, burning herself); an autodidact, she teaches herself to read and write, finally confronts her powerful father, and the trilogy LOULOU, CHAMELEON and SIMIA described below.

LOULOU: Wendy Wilson, mentored in Paris by a great French actress, trained in the U.S. as a pastry chef, returns to Paris with deadly results—she kills an American movie director in a posh Paris hotel, ending in a chase from Paris to New York to Los Angeles.

CHAMELEON: Wendy moves to San Francisco, meets an estate lawyer, helps him create three wild but unsuccessful scams on rich, powerful men, after which the pair try to acquire five million-dollar bearer bonds in the law-office safe.

SIMIA: Wendy moves to London; Brit anthropologist and American F/X expert won Oscars for the ‘2021’ simian opening scene; ripped professionally, they find/train/costume Wendy as a missing-link simian, ‘discover’ her on Ayers Rock to ‘prove’ reverse evolution and hoax the world scientific community.

Screenplays include ORDEAL BY FIRE—young beautician, treating a client’s hair with a flammable substance, is smoking; her face and head catch fire and she suffers disfiguring burns; a Hollywood special-effects maestro recreates her as beautiful with a prosthesis, to resume her life in public, and CHAMELEON (see above).
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THE FREELANCE TIGHTROPE

A precarious trade, but worth the effort . . .

Projects for Aga (Sweden), AMD, Apple, Bank of America, BMW (Germany), 

Canon (Japan), Cisco Systems, EMI (UK), Ford, Fujitsu (Japan), Google, Grundig (Germany), Grumman Aircraft, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Kodak, Monsanto, Motorola, Raytheon, Schlumberger (France), SKF (Sweden), Stanford University, Unisys , United Airlines, the U.S. Navy (>1,000 total projects).

Media writing includes the London and New York TIMES, ARPA, AOPA PILOT AUTOMOBILE, AVIATION WEEK, San Francisco CHRONICLE, San Jose MERCURY NEWS, CAR & DRIVER, COMPUTER DESIGN, CYCLE WORLD, DATAMATION, DEFENSE ELECTRONICS,  FLYING, SCIENCE, SOARING, YACHTING (>25 media).Documentaries: TECHNOLOGY UPDATE—CBS Radio (600 broadcasts), SEMICONDUCTOR TEST (script/direction), THE LAST MOFFETT AIR SHOW (m/c), GREAT GARDENS OF ENGLAND (VO), BRITAIN: THE GARDEN KINGDOM (VO), ENGLISH COTTAGE AND COUNTRY GARDENS, THE GARDENS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA’S WINE COUNTRY (VO—PBS/U.S., BBC/UK, France 2), THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF AIR COMBAT (script/VO), SPEED-TV (specialty projects).