I'm a professional writer based in the blustery Pacific Northwest. I write in two main fields; popular science and nonfiction travel narrative. My work has appeared in many magazines, including Scientific American MIND, Playboy, Archaeology, Spaceflight, Cultural Survival Quarterly, The Writer, Hang Gliding and Paragliding, Skeptical Inquirer and South American Explorer, and in the anthologies They Lived to Tell the Tale: True Stories of Modern Adventure from the Legendary Explorers Club, The Best Travel Writing (2008, 2009 and 2010) and Science Under Siege.

My literary agent is Matt Wagner of Fresh Books.

I'm currently writing three books under contract.

The Frost Giants (Solas House, 2012) is the wild narrative of my obsession with crossing Iceland's Vatnajokull ice cap alone, in winter and on foot.

The Fact of Evolution (Prometheus, 2011) is a much-needed followup to my first evolution book, The Top Ten Myths About Evolution, which is available in libraries worldwide, has recently been translated into Italian and isendorsed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Center for Science Education. In this book I detail just precisely how evolution proceeds, showing that it is indeed factual, and as examples I use many astounding, jaw-dropping wonders of the world of living things.

Migration From Earth: Human Evolution and Space Colonization (Springer Popular Science, Fall 2011) addresses a topic that has been bubbling in mind since the 1970's, when my father gave me a NASA publication called 'Space Settlements.' My book argues that the colonization of space is not a technocratic, machine-centered endeavour, but would be a completely natural continuation of human adaptation.

I have plenty of other book concepts in continual development; topics include * my 1998 expedition sailing a log raft off the coast of Ecuador, Colombia, and Panama * the Winter season * my recent solo, winter expeditions on Alaska's North Slope * a novella about hang gliding in ancient Minoa * common myths about the Ancient World * the early history of high-altitude flight and the development of life-support systems * the major transitions in hominid evolution and the evolution of the senses.

My Amazon Author page has direct links to some of my publications.