My name is David R. Christensen. I was born in Idaho. My family moved to Utah, where I have my earliest memories. When I was six we moved to Kansas, where I grew up. After my sophomore year in high school, we moved again as we began to follow my father as he followed construction. My junior year of high school was spent in Idaho and my senior year I attended Fairbanks (Lathrop) High School in Alaska, from which I graduated. The following autumn I attended my freshman year of college at the University of Alaska, now designated, the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
For those who read my second book, The Mystery of the Grinning Buddha, you will definitely see the connections to Kansas and my father going to Alaska to work. Grinning Buddha is written for ages 8 to 12 and is the first in a series entitled The Millerville Mysteries. The second book in this series is entitled, The Mystery of the Ugly Bottle and was released in 2010 in San Francisco and Sacramento. The third book is written, but is currently being checked punctuation, spelling, grammar, continuity, etc. At the moment the release plan for this book is for Kindle. (The first two books are already available on Kindle.) There are three other books in the series, so far, and they are floating around somewhere in my head. I think about them now and again and will begin writing the fourth in the series as soon as it solidifies in my mind.
I got sidetracked! While at collage I had a class, the final exam for which consisted of choosing, from a long list, ten topics and simply research a paragraph or so about each. (My older sister was a writer from as far back as I can remember. My younger sister also wrote beautifully and prolifically.) I decided to try my hand at writing and chose to write a short story incorporating a dozen or so of the related topics. The professor was impressed and of course he gave it an A.
Several years ago I had an idea for a book. Actually, I began having lots of ideas for books, but most of them were not what I considered marketable. But the one did. It is entitled, Tivoli’s Christmas and was my first book into print (2008). I am presently four chapters into one book and two chapters into another. I have the third mystery which I referred to above (The Mystery of the Haunted Lighthouse) written as well as one other (Stanley Billings: That’s Me, also for ages 8 to 12). They are in the process of being polished off. I am also completing a non-fiction book.
I enjoy writing and look forward to encouraging others through my blogs or visits to the classrooms of local elementary and middle schools. I presently make my home in Murray, Utah.
