Al Macy

Al Macy writes because he has stories to tell. In school he was the class clown and always the first volunteer for show and tell. His teachers would say, "Al has a lot of imagination." Then they'd roll their eyes.

But he put his storytelling on the back burner until he retired and wrote a blog about his efforts to improve his piano sight-reading. That's when his love of storytelling burbled up to the surface, along with quirky words like "burble."

Macy's top priority is compelling story lines with satisfying plot twists, but he never neglects character development. No, wait ... his top priority is quirkiness, then compelling story lines, then character development. No, wait