Hello everyone and welcome back. John R. Beyer spent nearly a decade in a Southern California law enforcement agency as a traffic officer, a training officer, and as a member of the elite Specials Weapons Assault Team (SWAT) before moving into the educational field. In that capacity, he served as a teacher for both regular and special education before moving into school and district levels of administration for a total of over twenty-five years in education. He is currently the co-founder and head writer for the J and L Research and Exploration blog with his lovely spouse Laureen, co-founder. He has been published in dozens of magazines and finished his Doctorate in Educational Management from Pepperdine University in 2001 and completed his PhD. in Clinical Psychology in January of 2014. He resides on a small ranch in the High Desert of Southern California.
He has also been involved in acting within the Western genre. You can look him up on IMDB and find many videos on YouTube.
His latest short story was published May of 2016 in Foliate Oak Literary Magazine at http://www.foliateoak.com/
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Hope you enjoy this interview.
Patrick
