Recent short story western fiction placements include “Mountain Mike,” “Redemption,” “Selling Out,” “Donovan’s Dream,” and “Death Sentence,” appearing in ropeandwire.com; and Caleb’s Courage and The Spirit of Sonora placed at frontiertales.com.

Author of 8 non-fiction books including:  HIPAA Privacy Sourcebook, (SHRM, 2004), The New Battle Over Workplace Privacy, (AMACOM, 1998), Personnel Policy Handbook – How to Develop a Manual That Works (McGraw-Hill, 1993), The HIPPA Privacy Rule (Hubbartt, 2003)  The HIPAA Security Rule (Hubbartt, 2004). Improving Performance Results (Hubbartt, 2007). Wrote the Management Memo column, Kane County Chronicle.1990 – 2007, a monthly human resources oriented management advice column.  MS Industrial Relations, Loyola University of Chicago; BS Political Science, SIU-C.  Currently employed with a government agency in Chicago.