Author Lon Hieftje

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My Biograpgy

I was born in Grand Haven, Michigan in 1948 – far too long ago. I was an extremely dreamy and shy child, I used to wander round muttering imaginary fictional ideas and places. At home, I would spend hours with my Erector set designing anything other that what was in the plan book.

   I was daydreaming too much to concentrate on anything related to school. It wasn’t until I was in my early 20s that I started to think that the world around me might be at least as interesting as what was going on in my own head. I did poorly at school, although occasionally teachers would think I had a lot of promise. 

I had enough and joined the US Navy during the Vietnam years. I ended up being a fuel truck driver in a Navel air base in Florida, never stepping a foot on a ship. After getting out of the service, it was time to grow up and finish my high school education. from there I studied business management in our local community college then engineering in Baker college. 

   After years working for three different companys that closed their doors, I started my own business. Shoreline Video and Photography that kept me going for many years doing weddings and corporate (video and photography). On the side I also worked as a school bus driver for my old school, basically for the retirement plan.  


2015

My first book

   After comming up with my first book idea, I tryed to start writing with no luck. Work was taking to much of my thoughts. Soon after retiring my wife broke her ankle and here we sat, not getting out and about. To make my time un-waisted a story outline was written, and "Jordan Kingston and the Unknown" was born. 

 

   However, in early 2015 there is a LOT to learn in writing a book! The first few chapters were hard, yet I kept plugging on. Slowly I began to know Jordan Kingston as a friend. I started to know what he was thinking! COOL..... Eight months later I finished working on the book, and the editing started. A few fragments from the book were published on My Facebook page. Next a "authorlon.com website was my job. After talking with other authors and formatting it for publishing. Using CreatSpace it was published in summer 2016, the book became my hopeful best seller.

 

   This Jordan Kingston book became the first of three Kingston books. The next two Kingston books came a lot easyer as I knew the charactors well. My writting became a big part of my life, a fun time with more to come.

Lon Hieftje