Ray Tabler is a retired engineer and author, originally from Louisville, Kentucky. He chased the north-bound dollar to Michigan because of a tragic addiction to a steady paycheck, where he married a lovely Yankee girl. Several decades later, despite the siren call of warmer climes, Ray might be permanently lodged in the frozen north. Ray’s short fiction can be found in the pages of The Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Baen’s Universe, and Cosmic Crime Stories. He has published four novels (A Grand Imperial War, A Grand Imperial Heir, Fool’s Paradise, and The Diesel-Powered Starship) with Histria Books. A couple more novels (Smitty’s Guide to Interstellar Bartending, and Sideways in Noir-From the Casefiles of Joe Briggs, Crosstime Private Eye) are currently being detailed before hitting the showroom floor at Nazca Press.