Richard Gray Lineback grew up in Central Florida and attended Umatilla High School in Lake County. He excelled in academics and was editor of his high school annual, won the Boys State Award in which the recipient traveled to Washington DC and participated in a mock Congress session. He won 1st place in the high school oratorical contest, won the honor of attending the State Science Fair for his project on supersaturated crystals, and published a newsletter giving a voice to many of his favorite teachers who had the courage to walk-out in protest in Florida over poor conditions and lack of current text books and other issues. Richard was the Salutatorian of his high school graduating class and, while still in high school, he took several college classes on advanced placement at the local community college.

At Lake-Sumter Junior College Richard took music classes and liberal studies in preparation for university classes. He attended Auburn University for one year and pursued his music and then returned to Orlando and enrolled in the University of Central Florida (UCF). Richard earned two degrees at UCF. His undergraduate degree is in Liberal Studies with a three-area emphasis in music (piano and trombone), exceptional education, and behavioral sciences. This degree is equivalent to two degrees totaling 240 semester hours. He then went on to earn a Master’s degree in English/Technical Writing. Here his emphasis was technical writing, the rhetoric of science, and expository writing. While earning his Master’s degree, Richard was published twice (Prentice Hall and Wadsworth Publishing). His research project, the Myth of Certainty, an annotated bibliography on the rhetoric of science, is published and resides in the university library. His Master’s degree thesis project, Color on the Web, is a 250-page Web site and an in-depth look at the production, use, and nature of color in the then new medium of web design.

Richard now works as a freelance professional editor and writer taking on a variety of projects, including Self Help, Ghostwriting, Technical Writing and Editing, Graduate Thesis Editing, Resume Writing, Document Design, Web Content, Writing and Editing Children’s Books, Writing in the Music Industry, and Science Writing.