He left journalism, at least the staff side of it, to follow his dream of writing poetry, novels, screenplays. So far that has resulted in two books of poetry on Amazon, a novel in search of an agent and publisher, and a screenplay looking for an agent and producer. The screenplay, Bradley Indians, is about a Native American baseball team in the late 1800s that is based on a story he wrote for a newspaper in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The novel, Nightgoer, is a young adult fantasy based on Cherokee lore.