Dave Folsom is retired construction project manager and a practicing writer, blogger and photography enthusiast who lives in Arizona and summers in South Dakota and Montana. He is married, the father of grown daughters, with a granddaughter and a grandson. Born and raised in Helena, Montana, Dave graduated from the University of Montana, worked a variety of occupations and industries, which included the logging industry. This experience led to his first published short story entitled "Scaling Rexford" which won honorable mention in the 1992 Edition of the University of Oregon's West Wind Review. This work eventually led to his first novel, "Scaling Tall Timber," a fictional account of logging and the people who worked in and around this dangerous industry in the 1960's. Dave's published works include "Warping Time" a time travel science fiction novel, "Dead Mules," "Coyote Rules," "Big Sky Dead," "Sonoran Justice," "Finding Jennifer," the first five in the Charlie Draper Thriller Series, as well as fiction novels entitled "Scaling Tall Timber," "The Dynameos Conspiracy," "The Zeitgeist Project," and "Running with Moose," a collection of short stories and essays.