About the Author

Shawn Roberts is a pen name. Given the name over the door, that seemed like the right way to start. My earlier publications were three or four exceedingly boring treatises on tax-exempt financing, and it seemed unkind to make anyone wade through those looking for a body.

I was born in Seattle and grew up in a couple of small towns around it. I went to the University of Washington, and then to graduate school in San Francisco until I found out the school didn’t field a golf team. After a career spent in various places up and down the west coast and a great deal of time in airports, I came back to what I think of as the northwest corner of the northwest corner.

Everything I write is genre fiction of one sort or another, and most of it has some connection to the Pacific Northwest.

I live on a small-ish island with my spouse and two Golden Retrievers. Most mornings I’m sitting on a bench on the porch with a cup of coffee, guarding the bay our house sits on. It’s a nice bay and I’d hate to lose it, so I keep a close eye on it to make sure no one steals it. So far, this security plan has worked. When not doing that, I’m usually practicing guitar or trying to teach the dogs to say, “Time is, time was, time is past.”

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