B. J. Deming was born in New England, but her favorite places in the US are the Alabama and Oregon. Besides fiction, she enjoys blogging about Earth Science and the American Civil War. Right now sh...view moreB. J. Deming was born in New England, but her favorite places in the US are the Alabama and Oregon. Besides fiction, she enjoys blogging about Earth Science and the American Civil War. Right now she is working on a nonfiction book about the first cat (due in the summer of 2015), as well as her next Jack Murphy book, "The Birchfield Murders" (due in the fall of 2016).view less