Ray Harvey, writer.

Remarkable content does not consist of overloading people with information -- even if the information in itself is good. 

Remarkable content comes from the writer's ability to feed the human hunger for wisdom and true inspiration.

When people meet most great writers, they assume they’re speaking to a former English major from Stanford or Yale or Amherst. When most people find out what I do, they assume they're speaking to an academic. 

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Though I always liked reading, college numbed my mind into stultification. I was four years into college when something   happened that altered the course of my life forever:

On some level I always understood that words contain awesome powers. Yet I'd never articulated explicitly why. Late one memorable night, while I reading a novel that held me absolutely spellbound, it dawned on me. The trajectory of my life was set.

What was it that dawned on me?

 I saw in a flash that great writing comes from a source far more profound and fundamental than any school could teach. 

I've since had eleven books published -- traditionally published and self-published -- eight of which are novels, the other three nonfiction. My latest is a nonfiction series titled Whiskey Wisdom: the Art of Being Interesting (a bartender's guide).

I was born and raised in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. I've worked as a short-order cook, construction laborer, crab fisherman, janitor, bartender, pedi-cab driver, copyeditor, and more. I've written and ghostwritten several published books and articles, but no matter where I've gone or what I've done to earn my living, there's always been literature and learning at the core of my life.