I grew up on a small farm in Denmark and went to gradeschool in a one-room schoolhouse with a potbellied stove. The desks had inkwells, and I’m guilty of dipping a girl’’s hair in the blue stuff. 

During deep snow, we walked across the fields. No snow-days back then. 

The single bookcase held old slates and a row of thin, blue books about Davy Crockett. This is where my desire to live in America began.

During highschool, we had a program designed to introduce the students to potential job opportunities by letting us work a week in our chosen field. There weren’t many to chose from.

Since I wanted to see the world, I wanted to go sailing. They put me on a wooden fishing boat, in the North Sea, in the fall.

I was seasick the entire time and never wanted to be on a boat again.

Always being a voracious reader, particularly exploration and history, I wanted to write, but that wasn’t an option in those days. “Go and make money,” was the message from home.

I ended up in the furniture business and spent the next 40 years in the industry. Beginning in Copenhagen, Denmark, I worked in Calgary and Vancouver, Canada, and Denver, Colorado,

before setting in New Mexico, where I established my own company in Albuquerque.

I never did live the life of Davy Crockett, but managed to build a life in the American west. 

Now retired from business, I concentrate on writing.

I self-published ‘Sword of the Prophet,’ the first in the Kuno Zell series, a few years ago, and am still working on the series. I am also exploring historical fiction and dystopia. 

Since then, I have written several books, all now with my agent, and yet to be published.

As any writer has found, writing and publishing are two different animals. Getting your work into the hands of readers is difficult, frustrating, and time consuming.

So stay tuned.

I live in an old adobe house in the Rio Grande valley with my wife and two dogs. We enjoy New Mexico, with its fantastic weather, unique culture, food, and history.

We can’t imagine living anywhere else, but travel as much as we can. Domestic and international travel allows us to meet new people and vist exiting places. 

What is more valuable than the memories you have of shared experiences?

For ‘research,’ I have also done several adventure trips: Rafting the Grand Canyon, cattle drive in Nevada, canoing in Canada, exploring the jungle in Guatemala, to name a few.

Hopefully, there is more to come.