Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/K. R. "Skoot" Larson


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The result was   delete. -- Cirt (talk) 04:19, 10 June 2010 (UTC)

K. R. "Skoot" Larson
Skoot Larson’s Biography

California native Skoot Larson has been in a music fan from birth. By age six, Skoot had acquired a trumpet, and fascinated by his father’s jazz collection, Skoot would                                    play along with records of Louis Armstrong or Pete Daily’s Chicagoans. He later switched his musical efforts to the baritone saxophone. Skoot also discovered books at an early age, and enjoyed writing short stories from his elementary school days through maturity, often featuring musicians and jazz music in his writings. Over the years, Skoot has written restaurant, theater, and music reviews for such publications as the Long Beach Press Telegram, the Goleta Sun, and the Signal Hill Tribune as well as historical monographs for scholarly journals. His first jazz mystery novel, “The No News is Bad News Blues” was published in February of 2007 by Author House, Bloomington, Indiana and Milton Keynes, England. Skoot’s first career as a radio disc jockey and radio talk show host required the young writer to move around America, and eventually Skoot lived for a time in Australia and England. Skoot also expanded his career interests, working as a behavioral therapy counselor, college instructor, musician and publisher. In 1999, Skoot moved back to his home town if San Pedro and completed his Master of Arts degree in Humanities – Jazz Music History from California State University Dominguez Hills. While attending classes, he served as Conductor and Tour Guide on the Port of Los Angeles Waterfront Red Car Line’s historic “Pacific Electric” streetcar. Skoot served his country with US Amphibious Forces in Viet Nam, as well as deploying with the team that picked up the Apollo 10 astronauts when their capsule landed in the Pacific. He retired from the U. S. Coast Guard Reserve as a Lieutenant after writing the Port of Los Angeles Anti-Terrorism Plan for the 1984 Olympics. In 2013, Skoot retired to Rockport, Texas, where he launched a new series of mystery novels featuring Dave Holman, the Texas detective along with a novel of political satire, The Palestine Solution and a humorous spiritual novel, The Testament of Jessica Crystal. Skoot also writes a series of humorous fantasy featuring King Irv, a Jewish king in fifth century England. Skoot’s primary loves are acoustic jazz, detective fiction, Wagnerian opera and cats. To date, Skoot has published ten novels and an anthology of his poetry. His latest novel is a humorous fantasy, King Irv’s Big Adventure. (UTC)
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