Author bio[]
I grew up in Iowa, joined the Marine Corps and got to see the best and the worst that the world had to offer. Then earned a law degree. No matter where I went, I always had a book with me.
Thanks to 21st Century technology, I now have hundreds of books loaded on my phone and always with me. This breakthrough allows me to binge read my favorites. How many books would I have read on deployments had I not had to have a physical book with me? I paced myself so I wouldn’t finish too quickly. We aren’t encumbered like that now.
I love the works of Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, JRR Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, and so many more. I have been compared to Andre Norton and that is humbling – she was an incredible author with a huge list of novels to her credit. With every new book, I aspire to live up to those that you, the readers, have compared me to.
Through a bizarre series of events, I 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 that’s the way it is. It is off the beaten path. My wife and I get to watch the northern lights from our driveway. Our dog has lots of room to run. And temperatures reach fifty 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 in the sub-arctic. [1]
I have a copy of Black’s Law Dictionary, and that is my main reference. The law is incredibly complex, and ninety percent of a lawyer’s job is looking stuff up. Research, research, research. The shows on TV show the cool lawyers whipping things off the top of their heads, quoting legal precedent by case name. They only get there by studying and memorizing—the oft-maligned Socratic method, as it may be. Yes, law school is where you earn your stripes in figuring out how to research, and coherently defend a position based on that research. Nothing is cut and dried. In law school, we had to take one position, switch sides, and then defend the other position with equal zeal. That’s where lawyers in training learn the ropes.[2]
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Kurtherian Universe contribution[]
- World's Worst Day Ever (Aside #1) (2017) (with Michael Anderle & Jeff Morris)
- Kurtherian Gambit: Terry Henry Walton (with Michael Anderle)
- Nomad Found (2016)
- Nomad Redeemed (2017)
- Nomad Unleashed (2017)
- Nomad Supreme (2017)
- Nomad's Fury (2017)
- Nomad's Justice (2017)
- Nomad Avenged (2017)
- Nomad Mortis (2017)
- Nomad's Force (2017)
- Nomad's Galaxy (2017)
- Nomad's Journal (2017)
- Age of Expansion : Bad Company
- Shadow Vanguard
- Judge, Jury, & Executioner
- Enemy Of My Enemy
- Superdreadnought
- Tales from the Multiverse
- Fans Write for Fans
Other books/series[]
References[]
- ↑ Author website bio
- ↑ Martelle, Craig; Anderle, Michael. Judge, Jury, & Executioner Boxed Set (Books 1 - 4): You Have Been Judged, Destroy The Corrupt, Serial Killer, Your Life is Forfeit (Judge, Jury, Executioner Boxed Set) (p. 458). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.