About the Author

C.M. Halstead is a life long adventurer and seeker. Torn between his writer's cave, exploring, and thinking, he spends the rest of his time off-trail hiking, fishing, and seeking solitude. Early careers and titles include, USMC, Procurement, NAI Certified Interpretive Guide, Boss, and the hardest one of all, Dad. He writes his stories on an old bus he is converting the planned completion date between now and his 30th novel; this does not stop him from driving it around the American southwest's wilds seeking the places of solitude he needs to create the next story. He does not discriminate in the length of the stories he writes, each hero's journey is as long or as short as it needs to be, no fluff necessary to tell the tale. Self banished from "town" and away from it's distractions, C.M. Halstead crafted The Tripper Series, Earned innocence, Mongers, and Not Eligible, to name a few. As a highly focused creative, he is usually working several stories at once and has 20 creative works in process. Regularly accused of depleting his readers of sleep, his stories are an escape from the grind eliciting the use of PTO, sick days, and late nights under the covers.