Tim Hemeon

I was born and raised in Southern California. The sunny weather often drew me outside where my friends and I spent our time riding bikes, playing Frisbee, or swimming. Growing up near Beach Blvd was convenient; for a dime I was able to jump on a bus, along with my surfboard, and head to Huntington Beach. My first remembrance of writing comes from my father. A politician and a poet, he was often writing on his ancient Smith-Corona typewriter. His desk in the kitchen was almost always in use, either by him or by me. It was from my father that I really learned to write. The love he bestowed upon friends and family through poetry and humorous anecdotes, as well as his insightful newspaper columns and legal briefs, showed me the power and beauty of writing. I attended California State University, San Bernardino, where my love for history led me to a degree in Social Sciences. I then went on to do graduate work in education at the University of California, Riverside. With two teaching credentials in hand, one for elementary and the other for high school, I began a career in education. I have been teaching writing and history, as well as other subjects, for a quarter century – the first five years in Riverside, California, and the last twenty in Redding, California. I have always enjoyed writing poems and stories, but I felt the desire building in me to write on a larger scale, and the result of this yearning is my first novel, “Soul Storm: a psychic thriller.” I am now busy writing the prequel.