The Free Trader of Warren Deep (Free Trader Series Book 1) (27 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I retired from the Marine Corps, got a law degree, worked as a management consultant, and then retired from that. I watched people. I worked with people. I studied how they interacted. It is fascinating when you sit back and take it in without any preconceptions.

In the Free Trader books, you’ll see the leadership themes I embrace painted across a variety of backdrops. You’ll see successes and failures. Winning is a state of mind that takes determination, humility, and even compromise. When that makes sense, you’ll start to understand more about me.

I was raised on Dungeons and Dragons™ along with James Ward’s games of Metamorphosis Alpha™ and Gamma World™. I studied World War II and the Civil Wars in America and Russia. I lived in Japan for four years, Korea for a year, and even Russia for a couple years.

I owned Gauntlet Publishing Company. I published the magazine Gauntlet U.S., along with a number of wargame rules and historical studies. That was all a hobby while I worked my day job. I left that all behind to focus on my work as a management consultant, where I traveled a great deal, more than half my year was spent on the road. I don’t recommend it.

Through a bizarre series of events, we ended up in Fairbanks, Alaska. I never expected to retire to a place where golf courses are only open for four months out of the year. But we love it here. It is off the beaten path. We watch the northern lights from our driveway. Our dog has lots of room to run. And temperatures reach forty below zero. We have from three and a half hours of daylight in the winter to twenty four hours in the summer.

It’s all part of the give and take of life. If we didn’t have those extremes, then everyone would live here.