About Us
Go Pacific Northwest is a division of MinRef Press, a Pacific Northwest publishing company based in Oak Harbor, Washington. Owned by Rick Lawler, this site specializes in art and publications of the fabulous Pacific Northwest.
Lawler is an award-winning writer and photographer.
Lawler and his family moved from the Sacramento, California area in mid-2005 to Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island.
He almost immedately secured a digital camera and began recording images of the area
Rick Lawler began writing in his teens, and saw his work published while in his 20s. Between 1977 and 1983, he was an editor for two weekly newspapers in California.
He is an award-winning photographer, and enjoys digital photography and converting his video into DVD movies.
Lawler recently retired from a major university medical center in Sacramento, California, and moved with his wife, Alice and two children, Sara and Sean, to Oak Harbor on Whidbey Island, Washington.
His non-fiction has been published in Westways, General Aviation News, Beyond Reality, Physicians and Computers, Young World, Sacramento Business Journal, Santa Clara County Business, Sales & Marketing Management, The Fresno Bee, and many others.
Fiction by Lawler has appeared in Space and Time, Midnight Zoo, Pulphouse, Mature Years, and many others. Some of these stories, and others, have been collected in Sudden Impact: Unsafe Reading at Any Speed published by iUniverse.
Lawler is a member of the Authors Guild and the Whidbey Island Writers Association
