About the Author

 

A native of Colorado, John M. Bartosh graduated from Golden High School in Golden, Colorado in 1965. Then he attended Mesa Junior College in Grand Junction and received an Associates Degree before he transferred to Colorado State University in Fort Collins. John later completed his schooling at Metro State College in Denver, where he received a B.A. degree in Psychology in 1971. With respect to more than his formal education, John said, “More important, as so many others who have made their fair share of mistakes in life, I also graduated with honors from the ‘school of hard knocks.’”

John’s business background includes twenty-eight years of retail furniture sales and management. Along the way, he worked as a store manager and management-training manager for Furniture Row Companies, one of America’s largest privately owned furniture companies. John has authored and successfully marketed two self-published books on the subject of business leadership: The Heart of Management and Practicing Dynamic Leadership in the Workplace.

At the ripe age of fifty-eight, John has learned that the most effective way to teach various aspects of self-improvement is to employ subtle, self-instructing, motivational techniques. And the author added, “ The elements of tact and humor in conjunction with the practice of basic or reverse psychology are also important. I tried to combine all of these factors in writing this book.”

As to what motivated John to write and complete The Wacky Adventures of Sir Wantsalittle Morefromlife, the author said, “ I began writing the book some seven years ago, just a couple of months prior to the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado on April 20, 1999. Largely because I grew up just a few miles from Littleton, the appalling event really hit home with me. From that day forward, I became insistent to do everything within my God-given talent and ability to do my part to insure that any such future senseless catastrophe, anywhere else and at any time, could be avoided. The deplorable, ill-fated incident at Columbine High School was in the forefront of my mind as I deliberately wrote each subsequent word of this socially necessary book.”

John also said, “ I wasn’t born with a natural gift to write, particularly fiction. When I first started to put my pen to paper in writing this book, eye strugguld wit bowth tha basik elemunts an tha fein pointz a wel grammir. Or perhaps that should be—I struggled with both the basic elements and the fine points of good grammar. Anyway, I was saved, for the most part, when I purchased a handy little book titled The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Grammar and Style, written by Laurie E. Rozakis, Ph.D.

“For some unknown, idiotic reason, and as compared with The Chicago Manual of Style or Kate Terabian’s A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, I easily understood Rozakis’ rights and wrongs of sentence structure, word usage, spelling, punctuation, etc. For that valuable reference book, whether it was written for literary scholars or for ‘idiots,’ I am eternally grateful. Now, I hope that you will enjoy reading The Wacky Adventures of Sir Wantsalittle Morefromlife as much as I enjoyed writing and editing it.”

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