From Mark...

Whatever it is that urges my fingers around the keyboard in their curious, homegrown hunt and peck style, I am grateful and afraid. Because I don't know why it happens. I don't know where it comes from. I—and this is the real knee-knocking stuff—I don't know how long I have until those deep, dark wells in my cerebral cortex may decide to dry up. Best not to examine it all too closely, right? Like everyone, I'm just along for the ride.

What I do know is that I owe a great debt to the writers that kept my flashlight glowing under the covers so many years ago. Rod Serling, R.L. Stevenson, precious Miss Shelley and Bram Stoker, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, H.G. Wells and Lovecraft, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Erle Stanley Gardner, Shirley Jackson, Dean Koontz and my lodestone Stephen King. (I love you, man.)

I've worked for many years in advertising as a copywriter and a creative director. That is the only thing James Patterson and I have in common, regrettably. James Dickey once worked at my ad agency in Atlanta, also as a copywriter. He got his Deliverance long before I came along. The point of it all is that advertising kept my wheels greased and may have even prepared me for this writer's path I've chosen. I hope so. I'm having a blast. And I'm humbled by the whole damn thing.

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Ben Leman is a businessman, rancher, and fourth-generation Texan whose appetite for adventure has carried him from the remote wilderness of Alaska to elk hunts in the mountain West and travels across the globe. A licensed pilot and lifelong explorer, Ben is of proud Scottish descent and has spent years studying the fierce clashes between Highland clans—research that inspired the heart of his debut novel, Between the Tines. His pursuit of authenticity has taken him to many of the very locations in Scotland featured in the book.

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Dominique Murray was born and raised in California. She studied Economics and Japanese at the University of California, Los Angeles. She began writing her debut novel during Covid. When she’s not writing, she is working in the tech industry or doing Hot Pilates. Dominique creates content that uplifts and celebrates the female spirit.

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