Eric Daniel RyanEric Daniel Ryan is an award-winning author who lives with his family just north of Boston in the shadows of Old Salem Village, the Rebecca Nurse Homestead, and Lovecraft's Arkham Asylum. After studying screenwriting and film production at the Schoolof Visual Arts, he served three years in the US Army and is a combat veteran of the war in Iraq. In 2005 Eric became a Boston Firefighter and, in 2017, opened a business selling and collecting rare, original movie posters called, Vintage Film Art. Each night, after tucking the little ones into bed, he settles down in his two-hundred-year-old home to finish his first novel.He is the recipient of the 2022 eLit Book Awards Gold Medal for Short Story Fiction and Silver Medal for Historical Fiction. He was a Finalist for the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards - Novella and a Silver Medal Winner in the Short Sto- ry/Novella category at the 2022 Readers' Favorites International Book Awards. Read More Read Less