About Sean

My passion for story telling started at a young age when I made up stories for my younger cousins. My writing began decades later in a blog where I wrote short stories, primarily geared toward my three children.

BARRY GOUPE: In the Midst of Lies was published in 2014. Eight years later, in 2022, RECOLLECTION was published. In January 2025 TOMORROW'S HOPE was published to complete the RECOLLECTION story. All are clean Christian Fiction, interlaced with sweet love and surrounded by a bit of action.

Aside of my books, my wife and I are High School Sweethearts, where we caught each other's eyes for the first time at Simi Valley High School in California in 1989. One day in September I was walking across the open campus to get to my class and she was heading in the opposite direction with her friend. I glanced over and was puppy-dog struck by a beautiful blond who offered a shy smile, matching mine. It wouldn't be until November that I built up enough courage to ask her out. Being a Senior, I'd asked out many girls since my freshman year, and every one was a rejection. As I nervously stood in the parking lot of the fast food restaurant she worked at, I finally built up the courage to ask if she wanted to go see a movie with me. She said yes!

We were married in 1993, and love being together. At one point we owned and operated a business, spending all day, every day together. In 2012 during my first business trip to Charlotte, North Carolina, I loved the area and told my wife I could see us living here. She said flatly, "I'm never moving to East Coast." In 2016 we moved to Charlotte. And here we are, both loving the beautiful tree-lined roads, open country and four seasons.

Having kids early in life was our plan so we could be young grandparents, and that plan worked. With two boys and a girl, our oldest has given us two grandchildren who we absolutely adore. They keep us on our toes and make us realize that while we are young grandparents, our bodies protest at getting up and down and keeping up with a child's energy.

Today with our kids out of the house, we keep busy with three dogs, mowing the lawn, home improvement, watching the grandkids and spending time with family.. Somewhere between work, chores and family, I squeeze in time to write books.