Armed with an English degree from Ripon College and an MBA from Chicago’s Stuart School of Business, Blake has enjoyed a fourteen-year career in the shadowed back-office realms of the financial industry, leaving his work with sprint cars and pyrotechnics in the distant past. He currently works as a consultant to hedge funds and asset management firms in Chicago and writes in his free time.
The big fantasy novel -- ones that takes twice as long to research as they do to write. My first published series is a set of four that unravels the mystery of an ancient murder and explores the statecraft required to rebuild a broken nation. |