AS THE LIGHT DIES

An IED changed all that in the blink of an eye, and he found himself back on his family land outside a little town called Tazewell, in the mountains of Tennessee.

Living a fairly solitary existence, Dave prepared himself to survive the hard times he was sure were coming from either a civil war in America, or an EMP strike from one of their enemies.

He was wrong on both accounts.

The author of this story, David Saylor, has been a voracious reader and a huge fan of the Post-Apoc and Disaster-Fiction genres for a long time. Recently, he was diagnosed with a rare terminal disease, and found himself bedridden in the hospital—a lot. Rather than lay there thinking about dying, he decided to write a story of his own to get his mind off of all that. He never intended for it to be published, and he wasn't sure he'd live long enough to finish it.

He wrote it using himself and his wife Julie as the main characters in a completely fictional, over-the-top, sometimes exaggerated, fun-to-him way, combining the genres he loved to read—because really, isn't that why we read fiction? To imagine ourselves in a different place and different circumstance than we're really in? David was never a Ranger in real life but because of the influence of his reading it was more fun to imagine himself as a kick-ass American Army Ranger than what his reality was.

To some of us, who are perhaps a "different breed of cat" than usual, writing a story is the only thing more fun than reading one. This is David's shot at it. It turned out really long, because he had a lot of time, and he'll keep writing for as long as he can. It's been broken up into several proper books, and his fondest wish now, is to see them published.

I think you ought to read them, and if you like them, tell him that from the contact info in the back-matter. While you still can.

Boyd Craven Jr. - Raventhorne Books