Fantasy always held a special place in my heart as a boy. Edgar Rice Burroughs took me to many fabulous places through his various series - Pelucidar, Mars, Venus. Other great writers soon followed - J.R.R. Tolkien, Andre Norton, Mercedes Lackey, Anne McCaffery, R. A. Salvatorre. The fantasy world of elves, dwarves, ogres, orcs, and dragons fascinates and inspires in a way few other places can, which is why it touches even my Æthereal series. After spending 24 years traveling the world for the Air Force, I retired to South Carolina and presently work as an IS Regional Infrastructure Support Manager for a Fortune 500 company covering facilities from Florida to New Jersey, plus Wisconsin and Minnesota. I have six children, thirteen grandchildren and step-grandchildren, two dogs, and a library of over 1,500 books of almost every genre.