Brief Author Bio:

A million years ago (1992) when my marriage was breaking up I wrote a 2-dimensional novella about a lonely writer who agrees to collaborate with another author who turns out to be a 500+ year old vampire. I socked it away until around 2000 when I dug it out and gave a few people copies. I saw its two-dimensional nature and decided to edit it. It morphed and mushroomed into something very different, but it was to become even more different.
I've always interacted with the spirit world and in 2005, I met a very kind and lonely spirit whose troubled life ended in suicide. He was glad for my offer of friendship and took an interest in what I was writing. I decided to give him a cameo appearance in my book. He was very flattered and started making a few suggestions, which turned into enough suggestions that it would have been unjust to do anything but give him credit as a co-author of the book. We decided that what would be his portion of the royalties should be donated to the World Federation for Mental Health to help people like ourselves who live with psychological difficulties. There are millions of people with mental illness of one kind or another in the world and all should have access to compassionate treatment regardless of ability to pay. As well, we are people too and should be treated with the respect afforded any other individual.
I live with bipolar disorder and do not know if one day it will destroy me. So as long as I am here, I would like to try and do something to make a difference.