Chap is a native Arkansan and attended the University of Arkansas and Little Rock University. After working for a large Insurance Company for twenty-one years, he retired as a Vice President. Chap moved from California to a house on Lake Hamilton in Hot Springs, Arkansas and began to write. His first novel was Once Upon a Reef published in 2012. It was inspired from his visits to the Dominican Republic and other Caribbean Islands. The story idea concerned billions of dollars of gold stolen by the now assassinated dictator Rafael Trujillo and a group of scuba divers looking for the treasure. Chap’s love of scuba diving was evident in this novel and the one to follow.
Later in 2014 he wrote Once Upon the Congo which was a follow up to the first novel but certainly stands on its own since several new characters joined the ones in the first book. This book has been published by Smoking Gun Publishing Company and will be available in May of 2015. The story will remind the reader of great stories like King Solomon’s Mine and those stores about great white hunters in Africa. Chap inserts humor, romance, danger and adventure and creates a story that blends history with dynamite fiction.
Currently he has just finished Beer, Bait, and Ammo and hopes to have it published in 2016.
Other Books by This Author
Once Upon a Reef - 2012
Beer, Bait, and Ammo - 2016