Richard Doetsch

Richard is a respected expert in the field of commercial and residential real estate, having served as the president, managing director, and owner of several large national real estate firms.

While many authors choose to write about thrills, Richard has lived his life experiencing them. He is a triathlete, expert skier, scuba diver, an erratic golfer, and an extreme sport enthusiast who has jumped out of airplanes, off bridges, cliffs, and 200-foot cranes with rubber bands around his ankles, parachutes on his back and sometimes just enjoying the hundred-foot free-fall into water with nothing to slow his descent.

Richard combines the adrenaline rush of his life with his imagination to bring out the best in his characters. He finds his inspiration in the love for his wife, Virginia, and how far he would go to protect her; it is what helps him fill his stories with heart and hope.

Like his main character, Michael St. Pierre, Richard does much of his work under cover of darkness where distractions are few and his creative juices flow best. A highly disciplined man, he does his best writing from 9 pm until 2 am and rises everyday by 7 to work out and tackle revisions, the business of books, and his real estate investments. He endeavors to write a minimum of 2,500 words a day which accounts for his ability to write two books and two screenplays per year.