Do you write full-time?
Not exactly, although it feels that way because of how much I write each day in addition to the media interviews, keynotes and training programs I give. My writing includes huge e-mail volume, posting to my own IntegrityWatch Blog, adding new pages to my website, writing articles, and creating the content for my media interviews, keynote, workshops... not to mention making notes about my next books. All I can say is that I’m deeply grateful that I love writing and rarely experience writer’s block.
At what point in your life did you make up your mind you were going to become a published author?
This started as a gleam as a teenager. I began publishing articles and training manuals in the 1970s. I completed my doctoral dissertation, which is like an unpublished research book, in 1982. But I didn’t actively commit to writing a formally published book until around 1990. My first print book was released in 1995.
Was there anyone in your life that you can give credit to helping pave the way?
What’s my word limit? First, and therefore foremost, I give credit to my mother for having taught me how to write. A published poet herself, she was a relentlessly accurate proofreader who also provided what felt like endless editing suggestions through my high school graduation. I resented this as a teenager but in hindsight I am deeply grateful to her for having laid the groundwork for writing to be so easy and enjoyable for me today.
What was your favorite book to read as a child?
As a boy I gobbled up the Tom Swift book series and read everything I could get my hands on about astronomy and extraterrestrial life. In college my favorite books by far were those of Hermann Hesse, especially Demian and Siddhartha.
Can you tell us a little about your latest book?
I’d be delighted to add to what I have already said about it. The New IQ is a five-award-winning book providing the world's first complete road-tested socially responsible guide to personal, relationship and career fulfillment during difficult times without sacrificing ethics and integrity. Part personal development road map, part health and wellness manual, part social change blueprint, and part staff development template, The New IQ shows people how to coordinate their personal, relationship, career, and leadership development in an elegantly efficient and streamlined way. Hailed as a "once-in-a-generation book," The New IQ is being enthusiastically recommended by business and government leaders, educators, clergy, helping professionals, and social.
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