JohnRichman
John Richman
Bio:
I've described myself as a child of the 50's and that says most of it. I was born in Upstate New York in 1947 into a middle class working family. With two brothers and an older sister, I spent lots of rainy Saturdays watching cowboy serials on a 12" black and white TV. Most of the early ones were what I call "shoot 'em ups," but, with or without the gratuitous violence, and excepting only for the unjust representation of native Americans, there was always a moral core to the stories. I liked that. After moving around some, we finally settled in a suburb of Rochester, where I attended high school and college. In 1968, at the height of the Viet Nam war, I followed in my older brother's footsteps and enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, where I attained the rank of Sergeant in less than two years. After the Marines, I returned to the New York State University College at Brockport and graduated in 1972 with a Bachelors Degree in English. Upon retirement, I would soon discover that thirty-six years of writing labor contract language did not, in any way, qualify me to write fiction. But, since that was my calling, I re-learned how to write.
General Info:
For Fun -- While Montana Adventure Series of young adult western novels continue to sell, I've occupied myself with an old (40 year old) hobby of playing guitar. I've recorded hundred of "oldie" instrumental tracks, a number of which are available on YouTube.com.
Search "Webster1251" on YouTube.
Recent Publications:
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