I have many connections with braille and blindness. My wife is blind, and I am sighted. We both work at a company that sells braille translation computer software. We have two adopted children with...view moreI have many connections with braille and blindness. My wife is blind, and I am sighted. We both work at a company that sells braille translation computer software. We have two adopted children with visual impairments. None of that affect my books, except that my wife proofreads my text in braille.I have an interest in politics, economics, and history. I like to serve up the dark side of these topics. I pay my credit card bills promptly because I do not want to build up a balance. I have two things in common with Jane Foremen. I had a similar intense summer school experience before my sophomore year in high school. I had a similar time investing in precious metals stocks in 2002-2003 when everything went up by a factor of 2 or 3 (except for the companies that mysteriously died).My hope is that the reader will be carried through this book into a strange, yet familiar world via a damn good story.view less