About D. L. Keur, the Author
Publishing since the last couple of decades of the 20th Century, and self-publishing since 2013, I now choose to independently publish, enjoying the freedom and the control it gives me over my work. As an independent author, I write all kinds of books — novels and short stories, but some non-fiction, too. Usually, I write under several of my numerous pen names, like E. J. Ruek, C. J. “Country” James, plus "space fiction" under the name, Aeros. With the release of The Jessica Anderson K-9 Mysteries, I decided to write as myself, mostly because many of the dogs included in these crime and search-and-rescue dog novels have been personal to my life. I've since gone on to write The King & Midnight K-9 Mysteries and The Sam & Mr. Nosy K-9 Cozy Mysteries, too.
As an author who delights in writing stories that I myself would want to read, my k-9 mysteries are the first novels and series of novels that I’ve written under my real name. For decades, I’ve cloaked my identity under pen names, even once deciding to self-publish instead of continuing the traditional publishing route. Convinced to by another author who became a close friend and writing confidante, I decided to unveil my identity and allow readers to connect me with some of my fiction work.
Writing is my passion. Though, among other things, I’m an artist and a musician, writing novels is where I lose myself in The Zone, immersed for hours, even, days, into the worlds that birth themselves in my brain to emerge out my fingertips. May you enjoy the results of my creative travels as much as I.
About Me, The Person
You've come to this website (I'd venture to guess) because you want to know more about who I am — how I think, why I think that way, what I do, and how I do it. I'm not sure I can provide you a tidy, succinct answer, but what I can do is show you a glimpse into “me” through my thoughts and ponderings, through my projects and how I approach them, through my creative expressions and client work, through my passions and perspectives.
I think conceptually and, often, panoptically, rather than in a strictly linear, methodological stream. Some find me extremely intuitive. The core of my friends find me kind, feisty, delightfully droll, and, at times, just a tad bit blunt.
If I were to name my most notable failing, it's being too honest. If one of my favorite bosses, Aaron Knight, were to name my Achilles heel, it would be (and I quote) that I “think too much.” Of course, he was pleased when I put his business “back in black” within a handfull of weeks after taking over operations, despite that “fault.” 
WHERE I LIVE
Two of my beloved dogs. Bailey is no longer with us. My wonderful, awesome Laddie is who Dree's star Aussie dog is modeled on in my newly released Contemporary Westerns/Romance novels, “Through Better & Worse, a Montana Love Story” and “To Have & To Hold, a Continuing Montana Love Story”.
Beloved Bailey
Wonderful, awesome Laddie
BIO
Author, artist, martial artist, musician, composer, poet, lyricist, horsewoman, hiker, mountain biker, friend to some, enemy to others simply because they don't like my viewpoint, my lifeway, my worldview.
zentao is my lifeway, Shaolin Kung Fu, my martial way. I also embrace the art of Tai Chi, Tao Chi, and I Dance the Tao. I'm an expert in many disciplines, very good at others, and some I just work at -- hard. I am a swordswoman, work traditional martial arts weapons, and love the Feather Form, the Flute Form, and the Creation Form, though I can't do them as well as the master himself -- the man who loves and cherishes me.
I live, I love, I am passionate about many things, especially preserving all that is good and beautiful, natural, ancient, alive -- that which belongs to native Earth.
Mostly, I care. A lot.
—DLKeur
A Piece of My Artwork
