Editing and Writing
With thirty years of college English teaching experience and many, and varied, publications, both popular and scholarly–articles, poetry, and an acclaimed book on Milton, Perversions, Originals, and Redemptions in Paradise Lost. “I am used to working with all kinds of writing and writers, from basic to advanced. I have taught business and technical writing, expository writing, and creative writing.
For help you can email me your writing, from reports, to emails, to resumes, to creative work. I offer individual tutorials, with prompt suggestions for improvement so that you are guided to become better, more proficient, and confident in your skills.
You can invite me into your workplace, where I can present interactive writing seminars for your staff. If desired, such help can be combined with various other kinds of business, personal, or executive coaching.
For a full biography of me and more information on fees, click here.
You decide how much of my time to buy and the exact nature of my help, as various packages can be designed.
My Publications
I am a writer of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry. Nominated for Poet Laureate of Colorado, I have published creative and scholarly works in a number of nationally circulated magazines and journals. I have also published a series of magazine/newspaper articles on psychological, sexual, and spiritual integration.
My acclaimed scholarly book on John Milton’s use of traditional sign theory and typology in Paradise Lost, titled, Perversions, Originals, and Redemptions in Paradise Lost, was published by the University Press of America.
- The front cover of my acclaimed Milton book
$64.00 Cloth Jun 2007 0-7618-3781-7 / 978-0-7618-3781-7 200pp
$34.95 Paper Jun 2007 0-7618-3782-5 / 978-0-7618-3782-4 200pp
For those readers of Milton who know little about the Augustinian tradition, this study provides a necessary background against which to appreciate the structure and thematic content of Paradise Lost. Renaissance Quarterly
“The remarkable achievement of this manuscript is to explicate how signs are evident in the very language of the epic, how, that is, the very language is informed with significance. The book develops a sign theory with reference to Paradise Lost in exciting and new directions. No other study, to my knowledge, is as comprehensive and systematic and detailed in doing so. The research is extensive, the citations from secondary resources are apt, and the contributions in original thinking and interpretations are extraordinary.” Albert C. Labriola, Professor of English and Distinguished University Professor, Duquesne University; Editor of Milton Studies; and Honored Scholar of the Milton Society for 2000 Read Professor Labriola’s Foreword by clicking here.
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You can order this book from me (which I will personally autograph), or from the publisher. It is also readily available on Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and various book selling sites.
I am currently looking for an agent for my novel, Reading the Signs: A Paranormal Love Story.
I am also looking for an agent for my creative non-fiction, Baltho, The Dog Who Owned a Man (click on title to read first three chapters), the first in a three books series about my extraordinary experiences with dogs and cats that have come into my life. These animals have helped with my counseling, not just as typical therapy animals, but as co-therapists that point out things I may have missed without their intuitive insight. If you become a counseling client, you will learn firsthand how these animals work to reveal problems and suggest solutions.
Below are various pictures of Baltho, formally Balthazar, the Afghan rescue who is the star of my first dog book, Baltho, The Dog Who Owned a Man. In one, he watches my niece and nephew cover their heads with silk scarves I brought back from Egypt. In another, Baltho is dressed in a hat and beads I brought back for Christmas presents from Mexico. In the other, Baltho is lying with his cat Figaro, or Figgy. Baltho was my first animal co-therapist–a clown, stubborn, independent, and wiser than any dog I’ve known.
My first book of poetry, The Necessity of Symbols, will be published by Barn Swallow Media. You can pre-order the book from me (which I will personally autograph), or from the publisher as soon as it is released.
From the book:
The Necessity of Symbols
But now, to the best of our ability we use symbols
appropriate to things Divine, and from these
again we elevate ourselves, according to our degree,
to the simple and unified truth of the spiritual vision.
Pseudo-Dionysius, On Divine Names
All morning the rain fell, sounding
on the roof like round, grey pebbles.
At noon the sky cleared to a translucent lapis.
On the chaise lounge over red bricks
I lay sunbathing, the air steamy,
the sun a bright, gold alpha.
I thought of my students’ exercises in poetry.
One told of his grandmother’s taking him,
a chubby-handed toddler, to Washington Park.
There she showed him ducks, told him
he walked as well as they, taught him to count–
one duck, two ducks, three–
white, and brown, and mottled.
In Washington Park one green day in April
I watched the meridian sun fall
and take residence in your hair;
my vision followed the curve of descent
as you bent to feed the ducks
crusts from your sandwich.
We felt like children ourselves.
Together we relearned our numbers,
how Dionysius stooped on Aegean sands
to demonstrate that one becomes two, then three, enlarging
until by love all returns to one again.
My front side as cerise as the nearby peonies,
I turned and lay on my stomach.
A bead of sweat gathered on my temple, broke,
and ran into my eye.
Stinging light, refracting, the bead multiplied.
Three drops fell in opaque pools that dried
quickly on the heme-baked bricks below.