What makes me tick?

What makes me tick is writing, or more accurately, the imaginative creative process of writing in all its forms. My writing is frequently compared to early Michael Crichton’s, which is a huge compliment since he is one of my favorite authors.

My speculative techno-thrillers are genre-bending and, as a result, hard to pin down. They are contemporary character-driven page-turners that weave action, mystery, love, cool tech, and environmental issues with a healthy serving of Twilight Zone fantasy and the paranormal. I then throw big ideas, in the form of thought experiments, into the pot to keep things bubbling.

I dig deep into the minds of my characters. I write thrillers, but they are not about who is punching whom. Environmental themes run through my books like blood through its veins.

Everything I write is character-driven. So, I take the time to develop the personalities who live and breath on the pages of my books. Technology is a key element in my novels, but the characters are always more important. Every bit of the technology in my stories is painstakingly researched and either exists or could exist. Every scenario in my stories is possible or highly plausible. 

This 2025 Substack video interview gets into the ideas and thought experiments that are in my first bestseller, Immortality, and its sequel, Ghost of the Gods. We talk about extinction events, the theory of civilization reboot, the mysteries surrounding what happened to non-avian dinosaurs, and more.

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I was born in NYC and grew up in blue-collar neighborhoods in the city and then Jersey. My dad never went to college but did earn a Purple Heart. My mother was the first woman to graduate from NYU’s electrical engineering program and eventually earned more degrees than anyone in our family could ever count. Both were the children of European immigrants who had come through Ellis Island with little more than the clothes on their backs. They grew up poor and worked hard. My mother put herself through college while my father fought in a world war. They married very late in life for their era.

I started life as a scientist, e-car inventor, AI software architect, and software and electrical engineer. I founded a small successful AI software company and then, for my second act, became a bestselling novelist, ghostwriter, and op-ed newspaper columnist.

I was widowed at a young age after my first wife tragically died in my arms as I told her she would be alright. Years later, I put everything I owned in storage and did my own version of Eat, Pray, Love by wandering the California coastline, renting oceanfront cottages while searching for a good place to heal and write.

Along that journey, I published my second bestseller and found and married the second love of my life, a remarkable woman and artist named Dana. So I have loved, lost, grieved, created, founded companies, wandered, invented, written about it all, and been metaphorically reborn more than once. All this life experience is distilled into my writing.

Articles about my work can be found in newspapers, magazines, and elsewhere. Publisher’s Weekly has repeatedly written about my work and identified me as one of the “Writers Who Rocked Self-Publishing” and reported how my books “exploded” on Amazon (their words, not mine). Prior to that, Publisher’s Weekly also did a full-page interview of me: “The World Has Completely Changed.”

People often ask how do I write and where do these ideas come from. The answer is that I have a muse named Calliope.

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Here is a biography written by my first wife, Mazelle, not long after my first bestseller was published in 2007, several years before she heartbreakingly died in my arms.

At three years old, he made spaceships out of his parents’ discarded moving boxes and pretended he was flying. By 4, he’d built motorized dinosaur models that walked. By kindergarten, he was taking toy robots apart and building them into other creations.

By the ripe old age of 8, he’d moved into making “future-predicting” computers. Engineered with a large box, electric motors mounted on the front, big tape wheels mounted on electric motors so they would spin and the tape would move, tons of little flashing computer lights, and a tape loop with computer sounds on it, his computer would allow his patrons a.k.a. parents to pay to ask “future-predicting” questions. After a certain amount of flashing lights, sound effects, and time had elapsed, he would drop an answer on a card down a metal chute, a castoff part from his sister’s Betty Crocker’s Kitchen.

Thus are the humble but extraordinarily resourceful and creative beginnings of Kevin Bohacz, founder and President of CPrompt. Educated as a physicist, by age 21, he’d designed and applied for a patent on an electric car. His electric car system has yet to be replicated in efficiency and simplicity. Kevin continued with his unquenchable thirst for creating cutting-edge technology and inventions, utilizing advanced engineering and creating custom software and hardware solutions for clients.

At the dawn of microprocessors, as an electrical engineer, he designed early hardware and software microprocessor systems. His career evolved with the birth of the personal computer revolution and with the emergence of the internet. He foresaw the web revolution and was a first-mover in e-commerce, developing an early e-commerce system Sendsafe that continues as an innovator today.

In 1994, Dream Dancers was published while Kevin was living in Los Angeles. This was his first, and some consider his best novel.

In 1994, he relocated his company to Dallas, Texas to take advantage of the web-broadcasting potential of the Central United States (and to find his bride). Over the years, happily in love, he wrote several more novels, the second of which became his first bestseller, Immortality.

 

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