I didn’t get serious about writing fiction until pretty late in my life. I found a fiction writers group at my local library in Tarpon Springs, Fla. around 2015, dusted off an old novel I had started in the 1990s and, with the help of the writers in the group, finally got it finished.

Much to my surprise, it won a Silver Award in the Florida Writers Association’s annual Royal Palm Literary Awards competition. Nailing Coloradas is now available on Amazon in Kindle and paperback.

So I want the term “award-winning novelist” to appear prominently in my obit.

I did a few short stories to read to the writers group, and one of them became my second novel, Bernie’s Shell. In doing some genealogical work on my family, and having my DNA analyzed, I came across an unanticipated story that became novel #3, Whatever happened to Delia? There’s no way I can uncover all the facts of the story since it happened 125 years ago, so I wrote it as fiction. If you don’t have the facts, make ’em up!

I’ve also contributed to another novel, The Triple Player, written by David Sobelman.

A fifth novel, Little Horses, is slated for 2026.

All of the books are at arthurfrederickauthor.com/books.