Rick MaloyI'm the middle child of five. Regular smoker at eleven (quit at thirty-two). Actually liked school, especially high school, where my modern language was Russian.Father at twenty and grandfather at forty-seven. College took nine years at four schools BS from Fairleigh Dickinson).I've earned money cutting grass in a graveyard, washing dishes, sorting mail, collecting for a finance company, bookkeeping, supervising seventy office clerks, and selling insurance - eventually owning the agency with my older brother.After cashing out, I switched from part-time to full-time fiction writing. Pieces have won and placed in short fiction contests. Others have appeared in numerous e-zines. Before switching to novels, I released a collection of my favorites in Sum of Many Things.Replacement Children is my first published novel. Evenings and Mournings, the second. Detour From Honor, the sequel to Replacement Children is the most recent, for now.My first-and-only wife, Ann Marie (the oldest of ten), enriches my life in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, while the rest of our va Read More Read Less