"Alton Gansky: " Alton Gansky is the author of twenty published novels and six nonfiction works. A Christy Award finalist (for "A Ship Possessed") and an Angel Award winner (for "Terminal Justice"), he is a frequent speaker at writer's conferences and other speaking engagements. Alton brings an eclectic background to his writing: he has been a firefighter, and he spent ten years in architecture and twenty-two years in pulpit ministry. He now writes full-time from his home in southern California where he lives with his wife.