“I love writing fiction that inspires young people; it’s my passion. Our generation needs heroes – at least a million of them.”

John is a publisher, author, and conference speaker who has been teaching homeschoolers for 22 years and at CHESS since its inception. John’s classes include effective writing and literature for high school and college prep, critical reading and thinking skills, professional fiction writing, plus business and technical writing. His writing credits include nine short stories for Focus on the Family, including “If One Falls” which took the Higher Goals first place award for fiction in the EPA publisher’s competition for Breakaway magazine. John’s most recent books are A Most Excellent Pirate Adventure, I Love Baseball and Ghost Pirates, which are part of his Young Heroes series. John is married and a proud father of two adult sons, four lovely granddaughters, a grandson and two great grandchildren. John has lived and worked in No. Va. all of his life. A Christian since 1970, John attends and serves at Clear River Community Church. All of John’s books are available at Inspirethehero.com and are fulfilled by Amazon.com.