The Trials of Adrian Wheeler is the culmination of Steve Shear’s career as an internationally known Intellectual Property Lawyer from the San Francisco Bay Area and Boulder, Colorado, as well as the founder of Silicon Valley Seminars, a company that conducts IP workshops for attorneys and their staff. He has authored almost one thousand patents and numerous legal opinions, as well as four treatises on intellectual property law, all of which are sold throughout the world by Silicon Valley Seminars and GIIP, a licensee in India.
Steve has been writing poetry for over ten years and is also a portrait and figure artist and sculptor, having spent two summers at the Charles Cecil Studios in Florence, Italy painting and drawing the human figure; several years at the Boulder Art Academy studying anatomy under L.V. Davis; and more than five years in the SF Bay Area under the tutelage of Jean Packard, a graduate of the Chicago Art Institute. He also painted with Boris Shoshensky, a Moscow educated painter who exhibits in Colorado; and studied sculpture under Valentin Okorokov, another Moscow educated artist, who has exhibited in Denver and Boulder, Colorado as well as in Vail, Aspen and Santa Fe, New Mexico.
While in Colorado, he exhibited at the Zwolf gallery in Denver and the Gallery Sovereign in Boulder. He was also represented by the Boulder Gallery on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder. More recently, he has had a number of exhibits in Tucson, Arizona.
The Trials of Adrian Wheeler is his first published novel, although he has another novel, Ira Neebest and The First Coming, waiting in the wings (actually his first novel) and a third one, The Click, he has recently completed. He and his wife, Susan, also collaborated on The State vs. Max Cooper (available at ArtAge Publications) and The Steele Deal, courtroom plays in which the audience serves as the jury. He and Susan produced and directed its premier productions in Tucson.
