Marshall High School

Lad Moore:

The author is a former corporate vice-president who left the boardroom and returned to his roots in "Deep East Texas"---the fountainhead for much of his writing. He retired to a small farm near mysterious Caddo Lake and the historic steamboat town of Jefferson, where field chores and writing seem to balance his energies.

Lad's life experiences are splashed freely into his writings. His early years were like a free pinball, bouncing among caring family members between stints at military school. His parents divorced early, and his father was always away--following his dream, soldier-of-fortune style. Much of Lad's life was high adventure--his time in strife-torn Indonesia, the wilds of post-war Burma, and a year on board a steamship-freighter sailing the world. In high school Lad joined a circus--only one event in a series of rites of passages that he reflects upon in his stories.

Lad has been published more than 600 times. His collection of stories about various 'scalawags' titled "Odie Dodie" is available at all major booksellers or directly from the publisher, BeWrite Books.

His second published work, "Tailwind," is a 40-plus story collection of memoirs--true accounts of growing up in East Texas in what Lad calls his "Days of Cottonmouths and Cotton Candy."

His most recent collection of stories, "Riders of the Seven Hills" Tales in Red Clay and Blue Denim" completes his trilogy. This volume is filled with stories of his East Texas youth and some accounts of "local legends" most people from the area have only heard rumors about.

Hundreds of the author's other works have appeared in venues such as Carolina Country, Amarillo Bay, The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Paumanok Review, Eclectica, Manx, Danforth Review, Literary House, The Virginia Adversaria, Adirondack Review, and in AIM, America's Intercultural Magazine, among others. A four-story collection, "Natcherly Bad," was published in Creativity Magazine. A heartwarming family story, "Final Approval," was included in Chicken Soup for the Bride's Soul, one of the latest in the Chicken Soup line of NY Times Best Sellers.

Lad's prize-winning story, "The Firmament of the Third Day," was published in the Best of Carve Magazine Anthology. "Burger Recollections," a East Texas burger-shop memoir, was published in the Food Encyclopedia, "ABC's of Food" at Peach Blossom Press.

Mr. Moore is a past winner of both The Wordhammer Award and the Silver Quill. His short story "The Day Hunter" was nominated for the 2002 Fiction Award at The Texas Institute of Letters.

Lad's most current work can be found in the Adams Media Anthologies including four titles of "Rocking Chair Reader" and three titles in the Cup of Comfort series. Each is available at booksellers and at larger Wal-Mart stores.