About the Author

Adrian Richard McGinnis was born and raised in Kanawha County West Virginia.  After high school he enlisted in the United States Navy and spent two tours of duty in Viet Nam in the late sixties and early seventies.   After his military stint he accepted a position as a Charleston, West Virginia law enforcement officer and retired after 26 years of service as a police lieutenant.  During his tenure as a criminal investigator, he attained a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from West Virginia State University in Institute West Virginia as well as a master’s degree in Occupational Safety from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia.  He additionally acquired credits in dietetics from Marshall University and successfully became registered as a dietitian shortly after police retirement in 1998.  His first employment as a nutritionist was at the Charleston Area medical Center Diabetes Center in Charleston.  Other employment included a private practice dietitian and the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine Diabetes Center.  He is currently the Program Coordinator for the Thomas Memorial Hospital Diabetes Center in South Charleston where he has been employed since 2005. 

As a writer he uses the pen name Adrian RichMac.  His writing business is Vowel Movements and he gets ideas while traveling and interacting with friends and family.  Richard was influenced by the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King.  He is drawn to and influenced by death, murder and suicide but end of life neither frightens nor draws him into the depths of after life.    

The characters he writes about are a close likeness of his friends and family and the “twist” at the end of each story captivates readers to seek additional pieces of the writer’s literature.  Richard enjoys writing eerie, ghoulish short stories, but he believes every human life is inimitable and structured with details that make each life exemplary.     

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