I live with my wife and two-year-old son out in the middle of the desert on the eastern outskirts of the Phoenix metropolitan area, much like the main character in my Apocalyptic Empire series. I travel about 46 miles or so every day into Scottsdale for my day job, to give you an idea how far out we are. I lent a lot of personality to my characters based on my real life family, so some people in my novel are largely factual. If they get killed off down the road, they will probably be pissed! I was the Vice President of Operations for a local IT company that I owned a share of for over three ye...