Out of Sight: Blind and Doing All Right

A high level radio news broadcast executive, Art Schreiber suddenly lost his eyesight. At the top of his career as a radio station general manager, Art awoke one morning at a resort near Santa Fe, New Mexico, unable to see. His world was in complete darkness. After facing total despair, Art plotted his return to the top while learning to live life in a new way in a new world. Art's refusal to fold his tent when his eyesight failed and his struggle to live life to the fullest will inspire any person who reads his story. Art's greatest reward in life is encouraging and motivating others who face similar challenges.

About the author: After growing up in Dallas, Hal Simmons attended the University of Texas in Austin, spent two years as a military officer in Europe and finally settled in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he worked as a news reporter for the Albuquerque Journal, the Albuquerque Tribune, and the Associated Press before going to the University of New Mexico Law School and starting a law practice. He has been an adjunct college professor at the University of New Mexico in media law in the communications department and legal advisor to print media and broadcast industry organizations in New Mexico. Simmons has published articles in Field & Stream, New Mexico and Wild West magazines, among others, and he has been a newspaper columnist for the Associated Press in New Mexico and the former Albuquerque Business Times. He has published one other novel, the critically-acclaimed Deadly Gold (Clear Light, 2002). To satisfy an interest in mining, Simmons visited both working and abandoned hard rock mines in New Mexico and Colorado, interviewed miners, and studied books by people who spent much of their working lives underground. He and his wife, Ina Simmons, live in Albuquerque and have three grown children.