The year 2000 was big in Rick's life -- he turned Fifty on August 3rd of 2000 and seventeen years ago he had made a vow to have a book published before he was fifty. Well, he missed it by only a few months.

With the release of WolfPointe pending, he begins a new chapter of his life that has included writing in it along its various stages. He has been involved with home computers for many years and used to publish what was then the largest magazine of its time concerning Play-by-mail, computer moderated, wargaming.

He says this got him "hooked" as far as having people read what he wrote, rather than writing for his own enjoyment. He did mundane things like -- answer questions about new games and game reviews, and it taught him to be entertaining in his writing. He had great fun.

The Magazine, The Nuts & Bolts of Gaming (NaBOG) had over two thousand subscribers including one issue faxed to a nuclear sub and another sent to Washington DC to be included with the diplomatic pouch to a Central American country!

He has always been a fan of thrillers and stories that make the reader feel "This could happen, but please, not to me!" He is also an Internet disk-jockey playing classic Rock & Roll.

He has traveled the world over and still calls the Chicago area home -- although a confirmed suburbanite now.