About the author

Stan Sudan

<p>Photo Credit: https://www.chrisstarkphoto.com/<br/><br/>Stan Sudan was born and raised in the mountains, valleys and forested farmlands of northwestern Montana. He attests that it was a childhood as wonderful as any creature on Earth ever could have been blessed to experience. He tries in his writing to preserve those practical memories from his early life, which include many true-to-life adventures, but also fantasies and fictional stories that followed him into his later years.<br/><br/>The farm-life of his youth was peppered with stories, folk-ways, fables, adages and tales of his own ancestors who homesteaded over generations—from Minnesota to Oklahoma to Montana—and did, true to his daily listening to those tales, drive Model A Fords on corduroy roads, drive steam engine tractors and harvest crops with teams of horses. Many evenings were filled with discussions over books, one of particular significance being Ostrander &amp; Schroeder's Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain, not to mention classic books of science fiction, such as Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and George Orwell's, 1984—both of which were two of his mother's favorites.<br/><br/>His own foundations in paranormal writing originated in having discovered, at age twelve, The Book of the Zohar, which enlightened him to the world of metaphysics, along with two books his oldest sister loaned him on handwriting and palmistry. To this day, he admits, those books are partly responsible for his obsession with the paranormal, and why the sublime forces of spirit and the occult make their way into his writing. Yet, far beyond the tales of alien invasion and reading with fingertips, which, by the way, often frightened him to death, were the monthly, sometimes weekly tuck-and-cover drills for those rural regions that lay only a few miles below the Dew-Line where students growing up during the Cold War practiced curling their heads between their knees and turning their faces away from the windows while lying under their desks. One would think that couldn't happen in such a wilderness setting. But it did, complete with secret, paramilitary soirees he frequently took deep in the middle of the night as a teenager.<br/><br/>Guided by several key zealots, one of whom was an a ex-green-beret, he learned martial arts, hand-to-hand weapons and guerilla fighting, reconnaissance techniques, resistance subterfuge, as well as street-fighting and wilderness survival. Heinlein's The Moon is a Hars...</p>