Look and Listen

Biography

My full name is Donald Douglas Hurst. I'm a 75 year-old life-long bachelor living in Northern California, U.S.A. I have an AA in Art and a BA in Expressive Arts. I'm a veteran of United States Navy during the Korean War and a veteran of the United States Air Force during peacetime. I have two younger brothers. 10 years younger, Dennis, who lives in San Diego, California. He's an electronics engineer. He's retired but still magnificently smart. And Bob, who lives in the same city as me. He's 3 years younger and has for years been the president of a corporation. He's now retired, but is still unabashedly bossy. I have a web site: www.donstuff.com On the back cover of Return to UKOO, my first book, is the following: 'No matter where I go, there I am. I can either get in the way or enjoy the company.' Another way of saying, when alone I'm not alone. I have my imagination and that can fill a room to overflowing. (:>)) Don Hurst

Inspiration

I have written ever since my words won my 6th grade teacher an award. I've written many short stories in my youth, all of which were rejected by the best magazines of the era. I've written ten novels until I found success with my first YA Fantasy, Return to UKOO. {United Kingdom of Otheroff} Now my newly published Cloud Riders is published. I have been inspired by E.G. White, who wrote an answer to a child's question whether or not his stories were real, that there is another life, that of imagination. YES! I have been inspired by J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. YES! I've found myself drawn more to young adult fantasy fiction because, to me, this is the most imaginative.