John Alexander

I worked inside state prisons for twelve years in close contact with some of the scariest people you never want to meet. Daily conversations with murderers, bank robbers, torturers, rapists, gang members, carjackers, and other violent felons were great experience for a novelist who writes about criminals. Most people never knowingly talk to a vicious criminal, but I did several times a day for years. What also helped me as a writer were my two tours in the Air Force and one tour in the Navy. They enabled me to live in other parts of this beautiful country, and meet people from everywhere. All told, I've lived in Michigan, Florida, Southern California, Virginia, and Arizona. Six years in Tucson were especially helpful to a native Detroiter who writes Westerns. I always liked writing, even in elementary school, but I never considered making a career of it. Now retired, I write full-time, which is what I always wanted to do. My wife, Kimberly, who majored in English and Political Science in college, does a bang-up job for me as my editor. I'm not into blogging, Facebook groups, email lists, and other ways I hear that writers must self-promote. That takes a lot of the fun out of it. As one who has worked steadily since my first job at age twelve, I don't want to work now at things I don’t enjoy. So I’ll write what I like writing about, and hope people like my books and tell others about them.