David Ryan - Member Profile

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Last Update: May 8, 2018
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- May 8, 2018
David Ryan → Writing Goal support group!: I've got it in my head. Now it's time to digitize it. My goal is to finish a chapter this week.
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- April 3, 2018
- Wendy H. Jones Thanks for joining in. I hope we can have a great buzz about my books if you read and like them. What do you like reading?
  
  April 5, 2018
- David Ryan Wendy - I'll read almost anything - when I have time. History and historical fiction I quite enjoy, as well as sci-fi and fantasy, are the genres I lean towards. Which of yours would you suggest?
  
  April 5, 2018
- Wendy H. Jones My DI Shona McKenzie series are contemporary Police Procedurals. My Young Adult Series The Fergus and Flora Mysteries are a mixture of historical and contemporary
  
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- March 26, 2018
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- March 26, 2018
- Wendy H. Jones Nice to see you hear
  
  March 27, 2018
- David Ryan Thank you! I look forward to it!
  
  March 27, 2018
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- March 12, 2018
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- March 11, 2018
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First Name David
Last Name Ryan
Gender Male
Birthday August 20, 1946

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Website http://www.davidryanphotography.com
Twitter @daveidaho
Facebook /LastCommunion

Personal Details

About Me An avid and voracious reader for most of my life, I have always admired authors and have always wanted to be one. Now that I've found out what it really means to be an author, I have more respect than ever for them!

I have been a photographer for 50 years, more or less, and have seen quite a bit of the world and it's people. Only recently have I considered myself experienced enough to write about them!

At around the age of 20 I headed out for Brazil from a little town in Southern California called El Segundo. I made it as far as Mexico City, where I fell in with a boarding house full of young people from all over the world. One of them was a quite attractive philosophy major from Hermosillo. She proved to be much more clever than me and soon disappeared with most of my bankroll. With the support of my new friends I stayed on and found work in the endlessly fascinating metropolis. It was there that I began my photographic career, soon getting work as a stringer for Newsweek, NYT, Reuters and a handful of Latin American publications. I eventually ended up photographing for the President (Echeverria) and accompanying him on many of his tours around the Republic.

After ten years of knocking about Mexico and Central America (with an interlude of hitchhiking in Europe and North Africa) I worked my way up to proprietor of the best professional color lab in town.

The changing of the Presidency, which happens every six years in Mexico, foretold profound economic changes which I wasn't prepared to endure. And besides, I felt it was time to get back to the USA, so I packed up and said "Adios" to my much beloved second home, landing at a little town in the desert north of Tucson to begin my acclimation to my new country. Much had changed since I left!

I eventually ended up in San Francisco, where I built a successful business as a corporate and travel photographer. This time Asia, Oceania, Europe were my principal destinations.

After 17 years in San Francisco, it was time to move on again so I searched the West looking for my next home. Boise, Idaho was it and there is where I have been for the past 25 years.

It was here soon after I arrived that I began writing a story for my own entertainment. It was eventually to become "Last Communion", a work of fiction that I finally decided to publish. Do you know of many others that took so long to write their first book? I hope not.
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