This is my painting of the Blue Ridge mountains which is one of the settings in my cozy mystery novel 'Fellowship of Deception.' The main setting for the book is Raleigh, North Carolina. The main character is JD Brock, a 6foot 5>> he-man, now minister, but also a former detective of the Raleigh Major Crimes unit of the Raleigh PD. He keeps getting involved in murders in spite of the minister thing because his detective friends won't let go. The book is with my agent Dawn Dowdle of Blue Ridge Literary agency (who by a weird conincidence also has a pic of the Blue Ridge mountains on her web site). It is in the editing phase and will soon be sent to publishers for that phase of 'How books get to their readers. '

I also am a fine art painter which is another reason the painting is featured above. It was unfortunately one of the many non-winners of ArtPrize based in Grand Rapids, MI. But I have an entry in the Federal Duck stamp contest so hope that painting does well.