Joe Byrd’s journalism and communications college degrees inspired him to become a pioneer in electronic publishing. As a McGraw-Hill editor, he managed a computer publishing system. In the new PC software industry, he wrote one of his two books using PC desktop publishing software, the first for a major publishing house,  Prentice Hall.

In his fifty-year career, he published magazines, magazines and research reports and launched one of the first digital photography websites. At one point, he published six public websites at the same time. His novel, Monet & Oscar is the first in a series of historical novels. In many ways, it follows his lifetime dedication to being a communications pioneer.