Rick Glaze published his first novel in 2009 revised to The Purple River in 2021 and the adventure novel, Spanish Pieces of Eight and Jackass, a Short Story Collection in 2022. Ralph & Murray published in 2024, is heart-warming whimsical memoir narrated by the dog and the cat. Rick was a financial columnist in Silicon Valley for San Francisco’s Nob Hill Gazette and the Los Altos Town Crier, and attended the Stanford University Creative Writing Program, and is a graduate of Peabody College, Vanderbilt University and MTSU. An award-winning songwriter, with credits on Country Music Television (CMT), and BBC Radio, Rick has rafted the Grand Canyon, the Salmon and Rogue Rivers as well as sailed throughout the Caribbean Sea.