About the Author

J is for James, but I was always called Dave until USA dual citizenship exposed me to bureaucracies that can't abide people who never use their first names - I'm still Dave to you. My Australian marketing & advertising career led me to start Orchestrated Chaos, a marketing communications company where I wrote for all media. The work earned me Australian Writers Guild membership a few decades ago, but I have been writing stories and poems for almost all of my life. Since moving to the USA, work has culminated in my research & writing company, Hunt & Peck. In recent years, as one of Long Island's North Fork Writers Group, I offered four tales in our book 7 VOICES (The New Alantean Library, 2015). STRANGERS IN MY MIND is the first publication of exclusively my short fiction - more, and novels, are in the works. I live in the love of Pami and our dog Scruffy on Long Island, with a world of mind-stirring mates via the Internet adding to my local friends and writers' group colleagues.