Clayton Emery is an umpteen-generations Yankee, Navy brat, and aging hippie who grew up playing Robin Hood in the forests of New England. He's been a blacksmith, dishwasher, schoolteacher in Australia, carpenter, zookeeper, farmhand, land surveyor, volunteer firefighter, and award-winning technical writer. He's a member of the Mystery Writers of America and Science Fiction/Fantasy Writers of America. Clayton lives with his sweetie in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where his ancestors came ashore in 1635. From: http://www.claytonemery.com/CE\_bio.html