About Gene Curtis

I was born in Bremerton, Washington. My father was in the US Navy and we didn't stay in Bremerton long. He was transferred to Norfolk, Virginia. My mother and I stayed on my great grandparent's North Carolina farm until suitable housing near the base could be acquired. That didn't happen. It wasn't long before my father was transferred to Galveston, Texas. After a short stint in Galveston he was transferred back to Norfolk and that's where he spent the rest of his career and where I grew up. Actually, we lived on the Portsmouth side of the river.

Until I was 18, I spent every summer except one (That one exception being spent on a shrimp trawler. That's something I'll never do again.) going back to my great grandparent's farm in North Carolina. I worked the fields for area farmers to gain a little extra money. Until I was 8 years old I did things like pick cucumbers and strawberries and was paid by the pound. I wasn't actually forced to do this, I just did what everyone else was doing and the adults thought it was cute. After that I learned to drive the tractors and was paid by the hour. My great grandfather was known as the best liar in four counties and I always loved to listen to his stories. I guess that's where I got the knack for story telling.

When I turned 22 I joined the police force and got married. Those were two of the best decisions I ever made. I retired as a police sergeant and moved to the country. I was pretty much fed-up with city life and moving to the gentle rolling countryside of western Virginia was something I had wanted to do for a long time. I missed the country life of my youth and in the city I couldn't have a campfire in my backyard. One needs a campfire in order to tell good stories.

During the long lonely nights on the police force I had tried to start several novels (in my mind), but they were absolutely atrocious. It wasn't until I moved to the country, where I could have a campfire, that I started studying how to write a really good story. Six years and many campfires later I succeeded in producing my first original full length novel. I called it The Seventh Mountain.

Many more story ideas sprang from that first novel and the concepts grew into a series of stories yet to be finished. I called the series Chronicles of a Magi. The Seventh Mountain is the first book in that series.


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