Marc HemminwayThe Author graduated from a small church-affiliated College, a major State University and has studied at several Ivy League and foreign Universities. Academic study helps to 'balm' my obsessive curiosity and direct me to strange expeditions and intersting people doing interesting things in interesting places. He has held Executive positions with major international research firms and continues to be sought for his opinions and media quotes. And as Jim Williams told John Berendt in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, one of Jim Williams' real Lawyers said to The Author I really did like your book. He currently resides on a Mountain Top in Tennessee, alone, save for the ghosts from his past adventures. The Sheepmen's Daughters is my first foray into sci-fi. The idea came from two decidedly unlikely sources: The first, a dream in which two creatures appeared to two surveyors in a Montana Valley charting a route for a railroad line in the 1800s. The second, a NYC literary agent looking for an author relatively new to fiction writing and with absolutely no experience in the sci-fi genre. Perhaps it was a dream resulting from bad shrimp and a white burgundy, and then a phone call set this tale in motion. Other than being a huge fan of Lost in Space and Star Trek-the TV series and the movies, I am that novice. Of course, I have read a bit of Jules Verne, Asimov, H. G. Wells, and several other names. One especially I found in the county library when I was told to read a novel by my seventh grade teacher. I chose a science fiction book Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement. Even by today's much more sophisticated sci-fi standards, he was a writer who knew his subject. However, my newfound mentor was looking for something different something really out of the ordinary, that has 'god-like or interstellar intervention, ' she said. Read More Read Less