author : John MichaelJohn Michael Greer was born in the gritty Navy town of Bremerton, Washington and raised in the south Seattle suburbs, and began writing about as soon as I could hold a pencil. SF editor George Scithers' dictum that all would-be writers have a million words of so of bad prose in them, and have to write it out, pretty much sums up the couple of decades between his first serious attempt to write a book and his first published book, \