Born in the heart of North Carolina, reared in Virginia’s Tidewater, and now settled in the upstate of South Carolina, Jim Hamlett is every bit the born and bred southerner. He lives with his wife of thirty-eight years in a home he built himself, tucked in a quiet corner at the foot of a mountain. For more than three decades, Jim has been a professional pilot, flying throughout the continental U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean. Moe is his first novel. "Squall Line" is his first short story published in an anthology of twelve stories, Out of the Storm.