Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2002517 in Books
• Published on: 1998-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 278 pages

About the Author
Born in Jackson, Michigan in 1948, Hopkins lives in Santa Margarita, California where he will retire in late 2001 after a 30-year career as a fire captain with the City of San Luis Obispo. He and his wife Rebecca have one 29-year-old daughter and one 31-year-old son at large. They have two calico cats, Junebug and Tigger, who still live at home.

Hopkins conducts occasional workshops at Cuesta Writers Conference, Pike’s Peak Writer’s Conference, and the Northwest Redwoods Writers Conference. He works with Georgia Writers Association and other writers associations to help new authors break into print.

An author in his own right, Navassa is his first full-length novel. The Fourth Corner of the Ninth Room, his second, was released in October of 1999 by Russell Dean & Company. The short-run first printing (2200 copies) sold out in seventeen days from the date of its release. His third novel, Shadows in the Grass, will release next year.

He has written several articles and short stories published since 1985. He attended California Polytechnic State University School of Architecture and Environmental Design, and minored in psychology. In his early college and pre-college days, he worked variously as a parking lot attendant, a cowboy, a mule packer and fishing guide, a fork-lift operator, a veterinary assistant, a flight line refueler, a commercial fisherman, a crab butcher, a security guard at a nuclear power plant, and a coordinator of a crisis intervention hotline.