Living quietly in a Minneapolis suburb, I have been writing the Harmony of the Othar Saga in various incarnations for more years than I am willing to admit. A story which began in college has, after many years, reached fruition with my first novel, Heart of Hauden. During the intervening years, I have helped raise my daughter, Katja, with my wife, Ann, worked in the information technology field, primarily as a database administrator, and received the support of friends and family to write as time permitted. After many years of writing in fits and starts, I stepped away from a full-time job to concentrate on completing this story. Perhaps it was nothing more than a classic mid-life crisis, but the result has allowed me to begin something I've dreamed about for decades. My only hope in presenting book one in the Harmony of the Othar Saga is that you will find as much enjoyment reading it as I have found in creating it.