Ron Hogan is the author of Getting Right with Tao A Contemporary Spin on the Tao Te Ching and The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane. He also contributed to the New York Times bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning and Secrets of the Lost Symbol. Ron helped create the literary Internet by launching Beatrice.com in 1995. Fifteen years later, after writing about the business side of publishing as a senior editor for GalleyCat for several years, he served briefly as the director of e-marketing strategy for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.