BioHighway Home’s initial drafting came in 1981. The author had just come off the road after five years of non-stop touring! He was home at last and back in California where he was born and raised. He split time between working on his street act across the bay in San Francisco and writing on his sturdy Smith-Corona manual typewriter at his home in Oakland.
He had studied theater arts and dramatic literature at Santa Clara University back in the early ‘70’s. There a group of determined Jesuits honed his person and instructed him on the fine art of writing prose, poetry and fiction. He went on to write short fiction and several plays. He turned his attention to song lyrics for a period.
He published several stories about working at street performing festivals in Canada. All the material in his show came from that same well worn typewriter. A few years ago his novel crossed over into electronic form when it was put on a computer in Microsoft Word. A second drafting of this novel took place over some 50 more weeks spread out over two more years. Finally, the book went to his editor where another 14 weeks of revisions and changes were made.
At the moment the author is living on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco with his wife now more stationary than at any other time in the last thirty-five years. His daughter lives with his now retired performing dog in Oregon on a 17 acre farm. And the author is working on his second novel when he isn’t picking up a show here and there, now and again.
