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Adrian Richard
McGinnis was born and raised in Kanawha County West
 Virginia. After high school he enlisted in the United
States Navy and spent two tours of duty in Viet Nam in
the late sixties and early seventies. After his
military stint he accepted a position as a Charleston,
West Virginia law enforcement officer and retired after
26 years of service as a police lieutenant. During his
tenure as a criminal investigator, he attained a
bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from West Virginia
State University in Institute West Virginia as well as a
master’s degree in Occupational Safety from Marshall
University in Huntington, West Virginia. He
additionally acquired credits in dietetics from Marshall
University and successfully became registered as a
dietitian shortly after police retirement in 1998. His
first employment as a nutritionist was at the Charleston
Area medical Center Diabetes Center in Charleston.
Other employment included a private practice dietitian
and the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine Diabetes
Center. He is currently the Program Coordinator for the
Thomas Memorial Hospital Diabetes Center in South
Charleston where he has been employed since 2005.
As a writer he
uses the pen name Adrian RichMac. His writing business
is Vowel Movements and he gets ideas while traveling and
interacting with friends and family. Richard was
influenced by the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and
Stephen King. He is drawn to and influenced by death,
murder and suicide but end of life neither frightens nor
draws him into the depths of after life.
The characters
he writes about are a close likeness of his friends and
family and the “twist” at the end of each story
captivates readers to seek additional pieces of the
writer’s literature. Richard enjoys writing eerie,
ghoulish short stories, but he believes every human life
is inimitable and structured with details that make each
life exemplary.
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