Donald P Johnston

I was born in East Texas a long time ago.

When I was five years old, I found a tattered science book with several pages missing. The first intact page showed a monarch butterfly emerging from a chrysalis. That incident was the ah-ha moment that drew me into the world of science.

Upon completing high school, I joined the Air Force and served as a jungle survival instructor in Panama. While in Panama, I wrote a weekly gossip column for the base newspaper and won 2nd prize in a short story contest. After that, there was a 60-year gap in my creative writing. Following my military service, I enrolled in Stephen F. Austin State University and got married. After graduating in biology and chemistry, we moved to Houston where our only child, a son, was born. During the early years of my career, I wrote numerous technical articles and research reports and published several articles in trade journals but no fiction until recently.

In 2014, my wife of 53 years passed away, leaving me the patriarch of a small family--a son, a daughter-in-law, three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. My family is my pride and joy.

I have been a member of Sugar Land Baptist Church since 1997 and have led Bible study classes throughout that time.