C. Norman Noble

I have been writing professionally since 1963. I have published over 100 articles and booklets covering fields as diverse as marketing, sales, aircraft electronics, marine electronics, and energy management. Following a successful career in the aerospace industry, where I managed international sales and marketing groups for major corporations, I was the owner of the Noble Group, a publisher of custom newsletters for corporations.

My wife and I have five children and 15 grandchildren, most of whom live within just a few miles of our home in Redmond, Washington. (One grandson is married and attending Ozark Christian College in Joplin, MO. Another grandson is in the Marines, stationed at Camp Lejeune, NC. Three other grandsons are also in college -- one at Gonzaga University, one at Baylor University, and one at Bellevue College.)

During my business career, I traveled extensively (up to 150,000 miles a year) and spent time in 78 countries on six continents. I conducted research for "Changing of the Gods" in both Corinth and Rome during numerous trips to those historic cities. I researched "Ever the Twins Shall Meet" when visiting Ephesus.

We are rainbirds (I coined that word because it was more descriptive of our situation than the more common snowbirds used by most others) -- in Sun Lakes, Arizona six months of the year and in Redmond, Washington the other six months.

I am a Deacon at First Baptist Church of Sun Lakes, a freelance writer for the Arizona Republic (Phoenix), Past President of the Desert Chordsmen Barbershop Chorus of Sun Lakes, and Past President of the 100-member Rotary Club of Sun Lakes, Arizona. I have taught classes on writing novels (What a Novel Idea) and autobiographies (Who Are You?) at Chandler-Gilbert Community College.