Daniel DarceyWell I'm a Navy veteran, and I now work in the aerospace manufacturing business. I'm an automation technician and I live near Seattle, WA. I started work on the Kingdoms and Empires series back in 2001 while I was still in high school. I wanted to mae a crossover between traditional fairy tale fantasies and contemporary science fiction. I took my two favorite story books from the time (Hans Christian Andersen's the Little Mermaid, and Tom Clancy's Hunt for the Red October) and practices merging them. This was the genesis for what would eventually become Kingdoms and Empires. Through the years, the Author and his wife of sixty years have enjoyed traveling to many parts of the world. They reside in the cattle ranching country of north central Texas. The Briney's have five adult grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Read More Read Less