Erv started writing fiction about eight years ago. Prior to then, his writing consisted of copywriting and newsletters for the service companies he ran, or legal pleadings for his law practice. Since retiring from the companies, he has been a lobbyist and instructor of continuing education classes for the plumbing, heating, cooling, and electrical industries, and a novelist.
Erv’s first book, Subterfuge, an historical mystery set in World War II, was published in March, 2019, after he met his publisher, Tony Acree, at the 2018 Imaginarium. In the book, a German U-boat disappears while patrolling off the coast of the United States. When the Captain’s son wants to find out what happened to it, he is told that the U-boat was never built.
His next book, A One-Woman Man in a One-Horse Town, is currently being edited. It is a family saga of a man alienated from his father and whose mother is dead. When he becomes the legal guardian for a mentally challenged man, his notion of what constitutes a family undergoes some radical re-thinking.
Erv is currently developing a manuscript with a working title of What Joan Knew. It is the story of a man who is responsible for the deaths of his family, as well as several strangers, and his attempt to rebuild his life in the aftermath.
Erv is currently a member of three writers’ groups, and finds feedback from other writers to be the most beneficial way of developing his characters and plot. He also enjoys being a beta reader for other authors. This is his third Imaginarium and he enjoys the wide variety of talented people he meets at each one. He can be reached at ervklein63@gmail.com