People Want You To Be Ordinary.

I Had A Big Akita, Yoshi, Who Was Fabulous. I Loved Him. We Lost Him When He Was 12, And I've Never Been Able To Replace Him. Normally, Most People Lose A Pet And Get Another And Keep Going On. But It Just Felt Wrong To Me; It Felt Disloyal.

The Relationship Between A Military Working Dog And A Military Dog Handler Is About As Close As A Man And A Dog Can Become. You See This Loyalty, The Devotion, Unlike Any Other And The Protectiveness.

What They Smell Isn't The Emotion Of Fear. What Dogs Can Smell Is The Changes In A Person's Skin That Suggest Fear To The Dog, Anxiety, The Way Your Skin Sweats, The Amount Of Uric Acid That Suddenly Pours Out Of Your Pores.

My Family Was All Police And Hard Hats At The Refineries; They Didn't Know What To Think About Me. So I Became A Closet Writer.

I Write Characters And Stories That Move Me, And I Write From The Heart.