Lance grew up in central Iowa, the product of public education and good parents. He attended Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa where he obtained a Bachelor of Special Studies with anthropology and biology majors. Then he attended medical school at the University of Iowa. He has lived in central Iowa with his wife of more than thirty years where they raised three daughters. There he continues to practice emergency medicine and the whimsical art of escapism with all things Scifi and fantasy for as much as his wife can tolerate... that is significant... He is, after all, a very lucky man.