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Author's BioFreelance writer R.H. Sheldon has written a wide range of material―for an even wider range of readers. His writing includes news stories, feature articles, advice columns, restaurant reviews, legal summaries, marketing copy, and training manuals. One of his news stories received a Runner-up/Best News Story of the Year award from the Colorado Press Association. One of his feature articles received an Honorable Mention/Best Feature Story of the Year award, also from the Colorado Press Association. In addition to his other work, R.H. Sheldon has authored or co-authored 11 technical books and a number of technical articles. The Puget Sound Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication awarded one of these books a Certificate of Merit. He has also worked as a content editor, developmental editor, technical editor, and copy editor. R.H. Sheldon is probably best known for his novel Dancing the River Lightly (SterlingHouse Publishers, 2005), a playful romp set in the sometimes frightening, sometimes fantastic world of the Pacific Northwest. He also wrote the novella Pacific Passion, which he and a gaggle of friends published as part of a proposed gag-gift series called ToileTales: Read ‘em and Wipe. You can still find Pacific Passion in bathrooms across America. For Dancing the River Lightly, you need to head to a bookstore. When writing fiction, R.H. Sheldon relies on many of his own experiences for inspiration. Whether recovering from a helicopter fall that broke both arms and both legs, soaking in hot springs in the Yukon Territory, running from bears in the Colorado Rockies, delivering artwork across the Southwest, backpacking down old mining trails in the Grand Canyon, or listening to music on Bourbon Street, he believes that life's experiences are a writer's best assets. But writing hasn't been his only career. He has run bulldozers, tended bar, led nature hikes, driven buses, operated ski lifts, conducted tours, pumped gas, painted signs, waited tables, guided raft trips, taught guitar, worked on ambulances, made stained glass windows, and generally sold and bartered his services wherever and whenever he could peddle them. And his list of residences is as long as his résumé. Raised in Chicago, R.H. Sheldon has since lived in Colorado Rockies, in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico, for a short time on the Russian River in Sonoma County, California; in the central Cascade Mountains of Washington state; and in Seattle. His residences have included everything from basements to backrooms, lodges to teepees, boats to VW buses, adobe homes to mountain cabins, where he relied on wood stoves for heat, hand pumps for water, and outhouses for relief. R.H. Sheldon now resides in Seattle, enjoying the luxuries of running water and indoor plumbing. |
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