Phoenix Writers Club Author Profile

Richard McMaster

Before embarking on a writing career, Richard was a healthcare executive, heading up three different start-up companies, one ranked fifth largest of its kind in the United States. A native Iowan he was blessed to live twenty years in beautiful Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and now in Arizona. He is a member of Phoenix Writers Club, The Authors Guild, the Arizona Author’s Association, and the Arizona Traditions Writing Club, a local club he co-founded. He is a volunteer citizen patrol officer supporting the Surprise Police Department.

He is the author of novels, Aaron’s War, A Love Divided by Time, Voyage of Life, The Other Half, and The Attic. He just completed his sixth novel, The Guts of Life. A summary of these novels can be found on the website Richard-McMaster.com.

Useful Links

• Richard's website: richard-mcmaster.com

• Richard's Blog

Select Publications

Aaron's War: A Novel of War and Devotion

Aaron’s War is a classic redemption story about a boy who can’t kill and is Jewish fighting the Nazis in WWII to fulfill his patriot duty. Aaron Vanko enlists to fight the Nazis, but the Iowa farm boy is conflicted over whether he can kill another human. Hours before being deployed, Aaron discovers he is a Jew, further disrupting his sense of self. Despite his moral dilemma, Aaron carries out his patriotic duty. He returns haunted by nightmares and then flees Iowa to protect his loved ones from himself.

A Love Divided by Time

A LOVE DIVIDED BY TIME is the suspenseful story of Forrest and Alexandra Nelthorpe, abruptly divided by death at the hands of a dangerous psychopath—and it’s about the efforts of the one left behind to: be a good father, seek justice, and be reunited. Forrest and Allie believed they found love in a previous life, and being born again was a game of hide and seek to find each other in plain sight, seeking their better halves, united and whole. When tragedy strikes, Forrest commits to finding her killer, raising their daughter, and finding peace by joining Allie in the ever after. The story is one part, The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks one part suspenseful psychopath story, and one part Somewhere in Time.

The Attic

SYBIL KOBAK, SYBIE, a classmate of BYRON KELLY, suffers from NPS, nail-patella syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. Students call her Tic Toc because of the way she walks with her brace. Years after this school they meet again and she has a changed woman. They marry, but tragedy strikes before they can even enjoy a honeymoon. When Byron faces assault charges and a lawsuit, he flees to Chicago to assume a fake identity and new image. He takes a low-level computer support job with an international investment banking company where he discovers the CEO has embezzled over 26 million dollars.

When Byron Kelly becomes a whistleblower on the run from the FBI, he hides in the attic of a dying old man, HENRY STEELE. Byron cares for the old man and learns he is estranged from his daughter over the death of her mother, his wife, because of family secrets he has kept from her.

Voyage of Life

The Voyage of Life chronicles the life journey of SEAN BUCHANAN through metaphoric depictions of the four stages of life in Thomas Cole's Voyage of Life paintings, childhood, youth, manhood, and Old Age. The painting’s depictions are a metaphor for his life—the verdant landscape and calm waters of childhood become turbulent in youth, and early in manhood the shores turn rocky when he faces one obstacle after another. Secrets that live in darkness can take a lifetime to see the light of day and thesecret that has hovered over him since Youth is revealed late in his life.

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