Jack Manson is probably my first character ever created. He was made when I was a child, well, he and Roger York. I grew up reading Sherlock Holmes, Batman, Dick Tracy, and so many other detectives that I wanted to create my own, and I did. I can remember where I stood when I made him. My brother and I were standing beside the dog house of the black lab we grew up with. 
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Several years later, I thought of him again and decided to put pen to paper and write a story with him in it. This was the era of floppy disks, so I saved all my work on these disks, which sadly are lost forever. And I had no way of really publishing them. I live in a small town in Tennessee, so my chances of getting published were slim to none. So I put the idea away.
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Nearly thirty years later, I lived a tumultuous life, so I wrote an autobiography. So I did, and it was published. I was proud that I could at least get one book published. But then I decided to give a novel a try. So I wrote a book called the sons of thunder. Then The first M trilogy sprang to life. But it wasn't until I decided on the sequel to the sons of thunder that Jack Came back to me. I added him as a last-minute detective to the sons of thunder sequel. I placed him in London, England, in the 1880s.
 
Again he was forgotten about, so I did a few more series and suddenly got the urge to write a kind of thriller. So I wrote a little piece called The entertainer. I needed a detective, so whom did I fall on, yep good ol' Jack. This placed Jack in the seventies. Once done, I decided I wanted him in a story with a more prominent role. So I wrote a book titled The Deathcalling Project, adding another character I created in childhood. I did it! I had him in his own story, so what now? This book occurred in the 1950s when I had always felt Jack belonged. So enter the Jaguar. A vigilante-type character from England who settles in Detroit to help the police fight crime. Well, I needed a cop, so enter Jack Manson again. Now that Jack was firmly established in my universe, I needed to explain his existence in all the other works. In doing this, I could tie in my future storyline and build one giant universe that would be destroyed and replaced by my Noir series, for which Jack is a featured player, along with all the other characters I have come to love. Now you know his journey.