I told my friends, “Someday, I’ll write a novel.”

After Arvilla said, “Stop yammering and do it,” the gauntlet was down.

I sat my backside on a computer chair and let my fingers do the typing.

Once the pages were ready, I had to find a proofreader.

I asked on Craigslist, received a reply, and once edited, asked, “Can you connect me with a publisher?” I was connected. Silver Knight Publishing LLC picked up my opus. In the stellar year of 2012, The Mysteries of Jack the Ripper found its way onto the shelves of bookstores.

Three Brownstone Murder Mysteries followed – The Murder of Wednesday’s Children, Fools Parsley, and Death is not Forever. Book four is now grist for the writing mill soon to be a polished work of fiction.

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Nyle Steven Patrick II [nom de plume] N S PATRICK was born and raised in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and is known as a Yooper. A Yooper regards all Lower Peninsula natives as trolls. Why, you ask? The Lower Peninsula is below The Straits of Mackinac Bridge. Trolls live under bridges. 

 

He graduated from Albion College a small Liberal Arts school with a BA in Business Administration, and known for the hymn The Old Rugged Cross and the fraternity song The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi.

 

He served as an Officer in the U S Navy from 1962 to 1969, starting his tour of duty off

the coast of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis and finishing his enlistment off

the coast of Viet Nam. A quote from Lieutenant Patrick, “I realized when a mine exploded beside theship giving me a refreshing salt-water shower, the environment was not healthy. It was now time to say so long.”

 

He considers his Corporate America life well-rounded, working in the screen-printing field, teaching business administration on computers, owning two neighborhood bars, and three travel agencies.

 

He called “sweat equity” life quits in 2001 and moved from Austin, TX, to Kenner, LA.

A quote: “I’m 83-years-old, I’ve moved enough, and I ain’t leaving this house until they come with the pine box.”