GW locates his business interests in downtown Denver (Solstice). He takes Sharna to a Rockies baseball game at Coors Field (Watershed). Downtown Denver looking east at sunset. The Four Seasons Hotel and condominiums are among Downtown Denver's tallest buildings. Coors field where GW takes Sharna to a game (Watershed).

Jets and planes are a big part of GW Canyon's life. Both his Pilatus and Tali's Gulfstream are kept at the Jet Center FBO at the Eagle County Airport. A typical day at Eagle County's airport handles both commercial service (mostly 757s) and lots of general aviation aircraft. It's a steep climb to clear the mountains to the west. Coming over the Flattops and approaching the Eagle County Airport from the north. I-70 is directly below.

GW and Sharna jet off for a romantic week in the Bahamas. One of the lesser known islands is Long Island. Remote, not touristy, romantic. (Watershed). After Starfish, Amy Taggart and GW reconnect on St. Maarten (Solstice) Bathtub warm water at Cape Santa Maria. A cottage at Cape Santa Maria. Bay view at St. Maarten

Watershed puts Tali and GW Canyon on the road in an overland-style RV van. As the creator-editor of Winnebago's lifestyle website, my wife Terry and I traveled 100,000 miles across North America. Traveling with us were 30,000 readers a month and over 1 million YouTube views of RV videos I produced. (Click on a picture to expand and view the entire collection.)

Starfish takes place in Eagle County, Washington D.C., and New York City. Right near here, I imagined William Pierce having conversations with Ben Taggart (TwinStar) Manhattan is a backdrop for meetings with Victor Armor and Peter Appleton in TwinStar and also in Watershed. Hudson Yards. The home of Gant Capital and Eric Gant's condominium. (Watershed)

GW Canyon is a Western Colorado native. It's been said, "write about what you know," and living in Eagle County for over twenty years (home of the Vail and Beaver Creek ski areas), this was our backyard. The top three photos are of the Lake Creek area. Homes and interiors are from friends' homes. (Click on a picture to expand and view the entire collection.)

Early in Starfish, in the “Dinner Guests” chapter, GW Canyon and Ben Taggart share a laugh about a book they read as teens. A young male fantasy that becomes prophecy. *Excerpt from THE RISE OF THE SERENES by N.V. Holland Chapter Eleven: The Choosing Klosvan saw it happen from the quad steps, and afterward he would tell it a hundred different ways, none of them true to the few seconds it actually took. The Tribunes came through the academy gates on the first warm day of the t

In Fiery, the second book of the series, I was beginning to have my doubts about GW. A good guy. Loving husband. Solid father. That’s a model I know and the research was easy. GW was created as a serviceable plot device, but that’s like describing furniture. And like furniture, after a while you don’t pay attention to it — to him. In Starfish he helps solve the problem, vanquish the bad guy and gets the girl. Yea! Then what? This was a deep structural problem I wrestled with.

Where Do the Ideas Come From? It's different for everyone. As I've worked through my own writing journey, I've started asking other writers how they plan their books. Some are precise — a full synopsis, then character sketches. I think of it like designing a home (see The Dream House Book): you lay out the floor plan first, then decide on finish and decor. Others work from a rough outline. Some pin index cards to a wall. I start with a sentence, and maybe a name — something t

On this virtual book tour, the key characters in GW Canyon’s world answer four questions. GW Last thing that made you laugh out loud: Davey texted me a photo of a trout he'd caught on a fly I tied. The caption said "Better than yours." It wasn't. A movie I could watch every year: Local Hero. The guy goes to disrupt a small Scottish town and the town quietly dismantles him instead. I relate to the town. What I do when I can't sleep: Walk. Surf aviation sites. Think about the p

To understand my approach to AI, you need to know a little about my history. My first home office in 1973 while still in college. Owning an IBM Selectric typewriter was a big deal. In 1979, four years out of college, I'd turned a freelance photography and writing income into a recognizable business — corporate presentation slide shows. I wrote the scripts, took the pictures, assembled the audio track, and synchronized the slide projectors with a tape deck. Ten years later it