Nelson O. Ottenhausen is the author of two previously published novels, Civil War II, (2004), The Blue Heron, (2005), and a book of poetry and short stories, Flowers, Love & Other Things (2005). His poem Out of Sane is published in Mind Mutations, a Siruss Poe Anthology (2005) and a short story, A Fish Story, is in Chicken Soup for the Fisherman’s Soul (2004).