I started my career in law enforcement before commissioning into the U.S. Air Force, where I spent 20 years as a public affairs officer — writing, editing, and shaping messaging at every level from base operations to national media. Since retiring, I've worked as a strategic communications strategist supporting federal agencies and Department of Defense clients, and I've held senior communications roles in the nonprofit and private sectors. I'm also an actively querying novelist and a...
I started my career in law enforcement before commissioning into the U.S. Air Force, where I spent 20 years as a public affairs officer — writing, editing, and shaping messaging at every level from base operations to national media. Since retiring, I've worked as a strategic communications strategist supporting federal agencies and Department of Defense clients, and I've held senior communications roles in the nonprofit and private sectors. I'm also an actively querying novelist and a published contributor to the national wargaming press.
That's a long way of saying: I've written for a lot of audiences, in a lot of contexts, under a lot of pressure — and I've been doing it professionally for more than two decades.
My specialty is what most writing coaches can't offer: I catch the details that make veterans, historians, and subject-matter experts wince. The rank structures that don't exist. The tactics that would get fictional soldiers killed in chapter one. The weapons that weren't fielded until a decade after your story is set. Pop culture gets military and military history wrong constantly — and readers who've served notice every time.
I work with fiction writers tackling military and historical subjects, veterans writing memoir, professionals navigating government and corporate communications, and anyone working through the query and submission process. Whether you need a manuscript review, query letter coaching, or someone who'll tell you plainly what's working and what isn't — I've got you
