Bill is a retired Emmy award-winning Journalist with more than 40 years in the business.

He has covered everything from plane crashes to multiple homicides, avalanches, and whole mountain mudslides. You name it, he's seen it, experienced it, smelled it, and lived it.

Forty years ago while he was still in school he wrote his first novel, then called "The Beast." In retirement and at the strong request from his wife he rewrote it and it became "Blood Mountain."

He always had an interest in the paranormal and things we can't explain, yet.

While he was still a news anchorman, every year he did a series of ghost stories for his station, and the video, the EVP, and the proof they found was extraordinary and is still shared on many national programs.

As he embarked on this second career he wanted to write about the marginalized, the forgotten, and the different ways to look at religious beliefs in the world and how to bring them all together.

His novels reflect that. 

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things as you will read.

Now he is driven to find new adventures and challenges for his readers and writes virtually every day.

His friends and readers hope you enjoy what you see and that you realize we all have value and meaning. 

We are all exceptional and one of a kind. His writing reflects that.

Enjoy!

Knud E. Hermansen is an attorney, professional engineer, and professional land surveyor. His education includes a B.S. and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University, a M.S. in Civil Engineering (surveying and mapping emphasis) from the University of Wisconsin, and a J.D. from West Virginia University. Knud is a retired professor from the University of Maine where he taught for over 30 years. He has also retired from the Marines/Army. He is the author and co-author of numerous publications. 

Lina Patton is a writer and illustrator. Originally from Maine, she received her BA from Elon University and MFA from George Mason University. Her work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Driftwood Press, The Rupture, ELLE, and The Cut, among others. Her debut novel, THE LAKE CLUB, will be published by William Morrow in summer 2026. She is represented by Danya Kukafka at Trellis Literary. 

Terry Persun's books have taken readers to the uncharted worlds near the edge of the galaxy (the "Biomass" series), to lands where shape shifters battle humans (the "Doublesight" series), to the near future in both technology (the "TEN" series and the "Neil and Mavra Sci-Fi Adventure" series) and shamanism (the "Shaman Detective" series), all while keeping the pace with thriller/suspense novels. He's also ventured into history ("Sweet Song" and "Ten Months in Wonderland"), contemporary crime fiction (the "Fuller and Walker Mystery" series), and mainstream novels ("Water Like Blood", "Petrichor", "The Perceived Darkness", and "Deception Creek").

Despite his adventures into other worlds, altered states, and other people's lives, he is said to be fairly average--but that's not a consensus by any means.

Persun lives in Washington state with his wife, five horses, two donkeys, a dozen chickens, and several cats (a few strays). There's no telling what animals will come to live with them next. When he's not writing or with the animals...well, you probably won't see him--except at his website.

Some authors work through organized outlines, notes, rather involved research.  For me, I sat at the computer and suddenly the story just flowed out.  Now, I'm more prone to do the research and I do the notes but not outlines.  Perhaps that is just my method, perhaps I'm just that way.    

As you read my books, you'll find letters that give insight into my motivation but also my thinking.  For example, I started "And The Mist Was on The Mountain" first, then just had an itch to write about the old west.

So I started a story about a cattle drive.  As I continued, ideas came that would work with the old west book and others were good for the modern romance.  As I say, this works for me.

As you'll find out, the major work, Hopefield Chronicles, grew when a character that was minor, suddenly could be used later in the that first western.   Hopefield was that character.  At first he was a throw-away minor character and suddenly, I could use him in the plot.  But the more I wrote, the more I needed to understand how he became the hard, driven man he was in Wranglers' Promise.  Suddenly, I was writing a backstory that became encompassing Stannis Hopefield becoming the man he is in the series of books.

As I write this, in addition to polishing the final books in the Chronicles, I have six other stories in process.  What plot detail works in one book, doesn't in another. 

My advice to you if you are at all motivated to create a story is just to start.  It won't be perfect, but you'll fine-tune, wordsmith, revise many times until it is what you want.   My style of writing is 'chatty', sentence structure is only a guideline.  But for me, in my stories, it works. 

In the end, write, revise, let someone you trust read, then revise and repeat!  When you can, let it go!  The glory of holding a book with your name on it is so exhilarating I can not describe it.