Al Crowell: priest, then therapist, and now author, first wrote two self-help books about relationships. I’d Rather be Married and Love in the Trenches. His clients and his clinical practice were the source. Then years later he wanted the challenge of fiction. His 2084: The One Hundred Project and The Experiment resulted. These began the series of his “what if” books that posed visionary solutions to issues of the day. Both are mysteries with themes of how children are raised and how they are educated around sex. After retiring Crowell took more time to write and for five years worked well with a writers’ group in San Francisco. Keeping Your Love Fresh, and Priesthood to Polyamory, came next and currently Drastic has been finished and is now part also part of his “What if” books. It presents the what if question about a president taking radical action against fossil fuel. Al Crowell: priest, then therapist, and now author, first wrote two self-help books about relationships. I’d Rather be Married and Love in the Trenches. His clients and his clinical practice were the source. Then years later he wanted the challenge of fiction. His 2084: The One Hundred Project and The Experiment resulted. These began the series of his “what if” books that posed visionary solutions to issues of the day. Both are mysteries with themes of how children are raised and how they are educated around sex. After retiring Crowell took more time to write and for five years worked well with a writers’ group in San Francisco. Keeping Your Love Fresh, and Priesthood to Polyamory, came next and currently Drastic has been finished and is now part also part of his “What if” books. It presents the what if question about a president taking radical action against fossil fuel. “Writing fiction is liberating and excruciating, all at once,” Crowell says,“in fiction, we can write whatever we want; but, god help us if it doesn’t make sense or isn’t interesting.
