A Biographical Sketch,

About the Author, Dennis Bischof 

Dennis Bischof was born in New Jersey. He is the father of three lovely daughters he raised from ages four, five and six to maturity. He has lived from New York to California, from Maine to the Florida Keys and has enjoyed most of the nation’s national parks in his travels. Mr. Bischof has also traveled extensively in Canada, Mexico and Europe. He now resides in Port Charlotte, Florida with his wife Patricia, a gifted psychic, and supports his writing with on line stock trading. He is a self-taught entrepreneur, with a background in engineering. He has owned and operated a variety of businesses-from a custom design machine shop to restaurants. GTE Sylvania, Raytheon and other national companies use custom built automated machinery, designed and built by Mr. Bischof.  He is a skilled craftsman and while living in the Penobscot Bay region of Maine, he architecturally designed and built his own classic Victorian home. This included the cutting, sawing and finishing the lumber, as well as dowsing and digging the well. For his creative approach to fabricating systems in their renovation projects, the Wilmington, Housing Authority of North Carolina honored him with their prestigious Innovation Award. Because of dyslexia he never read a book until he was twenty-five. In 1970 while in search for truth, he taught himself to read with The Autobiography of a Yogi, by Paramhansa Youananda. The task took four years. Later he became a member of the Self-Realization Fellowship, an organization dedicated to identity realization. Since then he has studied the major religions of the world.  During ten winters in Maine reading was not just a part of life. For Dennis Bischof reading was a means of survival. His poetry writing flourished and stories began.  He is a member of the Peace River Center for Writers in Punta Gorda, Florida. His poetry has been published by The Brown Pelican Press. The science fiction comedy, Reality Check, is his first science fiction novel and he is working on two more, The Road to Nowhere, and the sequel to Reality Check. He has just completed The Psychic Secret and has also written the first in a children’s series, Jamie’s Journal. The author now sets his sights on becoming a Newbury Award Winner and a "New York Times" best selling author. Mr. Bischof suggests, "If you must have goals, they might as well be grand ones."