I'm a writer, naturalist, and historian living in Colorado Springs. I'm a former Air Force officer and have a career in consulting to feed my writing habit (and my family, of course). I published my first book in 1995 and claim an all-time persistence award: the fantasy Raven's Quest, originally submitted to a publisher in 1983, made it to print in 2018. I'm a longtime aficionado of space exploration, paleontology, zoology, cryptozoology, and several other things. I have a collection of figures, toys, and models of the Devonian-era armored Dunkelosteus terrelli and maintain a FaceBook site for this scary-cool predator. I wrote about it in Prehistoric Times (Summer 2018) and am bringing it to life in fiction as well.