This site is a collection of writings and musings by Seattle author Al Hooper.
Al is a 30-year newspaperman who holds black belts in two martial arts disciplines: Shudokan Karate (promoted by Morris Mack) and Chinese Kenpo (promoted by Al Tracy). Informed readers applaud the authenticity of the martial arts background in Martial Law in Yakima. But Hooper says the general reader is the target audience for his mystery thrillers.
To allow more time for his fiction writing, he now works part-time as editor of his community newspaper in Edmonds, Washington. "As any editor can tell you," he says, "community newspaper and part-time are a contradiction in terms."
Hooper has written one previous B.J. Reynolds novel, Martial Law In L.A., and two books for young readers. His wife June is a public health nurse and his three grown children are "married and normal -- that is, they're not writers."