Paul Holbert

I didn’t start out with any grand design to become a writer but backed into it after attending graduate school halfway through my military career. Several of my professors told me I had a knack for the literary so I decided to try it. Having been an avid reader, I already knew that I wanted to write fiction. Not the Hollywood type of fiction, but fiction that carried a realistic storyline where readers could identify with the events and characters and be educated as well as entertained.

I penned my first book, Danger Down Under, an adventure fiction set in Australia, while still in the military but it wasn’t until I retired a few years later that I began to see writing as not only a creative outlet, but also a therapeutic treatment for the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that followed me in my post military life.

This led to my current book, Term Limits, a political crime thriller fit for today’s times as a disenfranchised man seeks revenge for perceived injustices to his family at the hands of indifferent politicians and decides to remove them from office in his own way while the FBI is on his trail. I use my stories as a way to release my imagination and treat the unpleasant memories from my military service in a constructive, creative way.

It takes me about six months to research material and write my books but the stories are a combination of my own knowledge and experiences combined with factual information related to the story. I plan to continue writing and am currently working on a sequel to Term Limits as well as teaming up with my own personal literary critic named “Sarge”, a ventriloquism dummy, at some of my future events.