John D. Parker

John was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, but has lived most of his adult life in a log home he and his wife Lori designed and built near the Colorado Gold Rush towns of Gilpin County. They split the warm months between home and a guest ranch in Wyoming, where John enjoys riding and training horses. Over the years, John has written and edited many short stories and roleplaying adventures. He has also written and directed several interactive mysteries performed at historical sites and museums. Now, after a varied professional career, John dedicates his creative energy to writing, editing, and game design. John models his fiction after the great writers of the mid-twentieth century who captured his imagination with their magnificent prose. Writers across the genre spectrum, like: Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. LeGuin; Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie, and later James Lee Burke; Louis L’Amour and Elmore Leonard, to name a few. Great stories become timeless in their telling. A tall order he seeks to satisfy in every story he shares with his readers. John writes fiction in several genres and publishes under different pen names to avoid confusion for his readers and the Amazon AI. This separation is not to hide anything, but to ensure that when you search for his work, you find the genres you expect. So you don’t find dragons when you’re looking for cowpokes. (Though, that’s a story I want to write). Each story he writes features some combination of one or more of the genres indicated below. You will find stories for young readers and adults in any genre and he will be clear if any story exceeds the equivalent of a PG-13 rating (those are very rare).