Letters To Die For

Richard Houston worked as a carpenter for twenty years while taking college classes whenever he could. After earning a bachelor's degree in math he spent the next twenty-five years as a successful software engineer. Although he found success in those professions, he always dreamed of writing a novel. He honed that craft by taking every creative writing class he could. Somehow his poems and short stories usually had a dog as a major character. One in particular, Begging Not for Love, was published by the Mendocino Review. Richard now lives and writes at his lake home in Missouri, where he and his wife are raising their granddaughter, two dachshunds, and a rescue dog that is mostly golden retriever.

Todd McLaren was involved in radio for more than twenty years in cities on both coasts, including Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. He left broadcasting for a full-time career in voice-overs, where he has been heard on more than 5,000 TV and radio commercials, as well as TV promos; narrations for documentaries on such networks as A&E, Discovery, and the History Channel; and films, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit?