Kris Longknife: Defender (36 page)

Mike Shepherd
grew up Navy. It taught him early about change and the chain of command. He’s worked as a bartender and cabdriver, personnel advisor and labor negotiator. Now retired from building databases about the endangered critters of the Pacific Northwest, he’s looking forward to some fun reading and writing.

Mike lives in Vancouver, Washington, with his wife, Ellen, and close to his daughter and grandchildren. He enjoys reading, writing, dreaming, watching grandchildren for story ideas, and upgrading his computer—all are never-ending.

He’s hard at work on books coming from Ace in 2014:
Kris Longknife: Tenacious
(10/14),
Vicky Peterwald: Target
(6/14), and
To Do or Die
(2/14), which tells of Ray Longknife and Trouble’s trials and tribulations while peacemaking after the Unity War and just before the Iteeche War started.

You can learn more about Mike and all his books at his website www.mikeshepherd.org, e-mail him at [email protected], or follow Kris Longknife on Facebook.