Following graduate work in English Literature and Playwriting, he spent just short of six years employed on deep-sea ships running out of New York into the Caribbean and down the West Coast of Sout...view moreFollowing graduate work in English Literature and Playwriting, he spent just short of six years employed on deep-sea ships running out of New York into the Caribbean and down the West Coast of South America.
More recently, he spent a decade researching the project and more than that in drafting the book and the Cycle it begins. Written mainly in Mr. McNachten spent just short of six years working on deep-sea
ships that ran out of New York into the Caribbean and down the
West Coast of South America. More recently, he spent a decade
researching the project and more than that in drafting this book and
the other books of the Christmas Chronicles. The writing was done
mainly in Jalapa, the Capital of Veracruz State in Mexico. At an
altitude of l0,000 feet, it lacked beaches and tourists, but it was
heavy on coffee houses and the writer’s blessing of isolation.view less