J. S. Holley

After 36 years of law enforcement and working every job from K-9 to hostage negotiator to Traffic homicide to chief of police, I retired and, in my dotage, thought I might try to write a book. The kind of book I would like to read, and I have been an active reader since I got my first library card at age five. Over the course of three years, I taught myself how to write a novel that did not sound like a police report. The result was "Decoherent," a police procedural with a science fiction twist.

The second novel "Old Dogs" pits young, corrupt cops against an old guy about to "pull the pin" and join the ranks of the retired. But that old guy knows things they don't and mayhem ensues.

My major hobby, since the age of 13, has been the martial arts. I have several rankings in various arts, the highest of which is a 5th degree black belt in Okinawan Goju Ryu. I will be doing this sort of thing, in one form or another, until the day I die. Additionally, I enjoy reading widely through fiction genres as well as history (my major in college), languages, neuroscience, ecology ... the list goes on.

I live in sunny (and occasionally psychotic) Florida with my wife, two dogs, two cats, and my youngest son still in college.

I'm looking forward to being an author in the next chapter in my life and hope that you will join me as I find new and interesting things to write about.