Welcome Mat

Thanks for finding me! I’ve put together this web site to help you learn more about me and the books I write. That’s my wife, Nicole, and we’ve been married for thirty-three wonderful years.

Let me tell you—I love what I do. I get to play with words all day. Research interesting topics. Tell fascinating stories. Bring characters to life. Create.

I’ve been writing for a living for thirty years after getting my start at a small weekly newspaper at the California ski resort of Mammoth Lakes. Then in 1986, I received a huge break: I was hired by Focus on the Family, a Christian ministry founded by Dr. James Dobson, to be the editor of Focus on the Family magazine. I enjoyed eleven fantastic and satisfying years at Focus on the Family before moving into a freelance career as an author, editor, and speaker.

Although I’ve written a dozen books under my name, I’ve collaborated with some amazing people by writing their books for them: folks like Tim and Beverly LaHaye, evangelist Luis Palau, pop singers Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., tennis stars Michael Chang, Roscoe Tanner, and Betsy McCormack, baseball pitcher Dave Dravecky, NFL football stars Colt McCoy and Rolf Benirschke, San Diego physician Nick Yphantides (My Big Fat Greek Diet),
and Jordan Rubin of The Maker’s Diet fame.

But the professional and personal highlight has been coming alongside Fred Stoeker ever since Every Man’s Battle was released in 2000. The “Every Man’s” series—nearly a dozen books in all—is nearing 2 million in sales, but more importantly, the impact in men’s lives has been mind-boggling and humbling. To be part of influencing millions of guys staggers my imagination and is something I will treasure to the end of my days.

So thanks for looking me up! Feel free to look around my site, check out some photos, read up on my blog, and scan through some book excerpts. You’ll also find out about a couple of World War II novels that I wrote with Tricia Goyer called The Swiss Courier and Chasing Mona Lisa. They are fun, exciting thrillers.

Under the Contact Me page, you can write me an e-mail. I’ll do my best to respond as long as I can keep up.

Again, thanks for dropping by.

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