Steve Schatz is having a wonderful adventure. Raised in New Mexico, his primary interests were classical music and theater. He holds degrees in Government, Instructional Design and a PhD in Education. He wrote, directed and starred in a public access children's educational television program that ran for 5 years in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles. He has taught comedy traffic school, run workshops on writing across the curriculum with educators throughout the country and has been on the faculties of University of Hartford and University of Massachusetts. His writing has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, but his love has always been fiction. His stories and poems have appeared in national and regional magazines. Two of his novels have been published by Absolute Love Publishing. His stories convey a message of the power of friendship and the inner strength that each person has to change the world through intentional creative action. A sense of humor and fun courses through all his work. He spends his time writing and enjoying this amazing world. He lives in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana with his very patient husband of many years and two cats who allow him to pet them if he is good.