There's Only One Thing To Say To

...you Don't Always Get What You Expect. I Wish Someone, Sometime When I Was Growing Up, Would Have Told Me What Expectations Would Get Me. ... Our Parents, Schools, Everyone Tells Us Things Will Be A Certain Way When We're Adults And If They're Not That Way, We Should Make Them Be; Or At Least Pretend. But After A Certain Point That Just Doesn't Work.

...the Magnificent Seven Consisted Of One Swimmer Of Color, A Representative From Each Extreme Of The Educational Spectrum, A Muscle Man, A Giant, A Chameleon, And A One-legged Psychopath. When I Envision Us Walking Seven Abreast Through The Halls Of Cutter High, Decked Out In The Sacred Blue And Gold, My Heart Swells.

Beware The Short Terminal Guy With Nothing To Lose.

Deadline' Is The Story Of A Young Man Forced To Discover Who He Is, And What's Important In Life, During The Short Span Of His Senior Year In High School.

My First Book, 'running Loose', Was Censored Back In 1983 Or '84. Every Book I've Written Since Has Been Censored Somewhere.