Eldon Kellogg Email & Phone Number

I was born in Durham, North Carolina on November 8, 1951. I attended NC State University from 1969 to 1972, majoring in mechanical engineering. Two problems: first, the drinking age back then was 18; second, I majored in engineering because all my friends majored in engineering (I found out the hard way that calculus and I didn't get along). My mother's comment was, "I don't know what you're going to do, but you're not living here." So, I enlisted in the US Army in 1972, during the Vietnam War, and found myself in the Infantry. Two years later, I applied for the Army's Nuclear Power Plant Operator's School, graduated in 1975 with a specialty in Radiation Protection. After spending three years in Honolulu, working at the Tripler Army Medical Center, I left the army in November 1979 with a wife, a two-year-old son, and no job.I started working at Three Mile Island Unit 2 in February 1980, 11 months after the accident. That started a career in nuclear power that lasted until 2012. I have written lesson plans, procedures, and presentations galore (not exactly creative writing). Creative writing is different. You have to imagine a scene, place yourself inside it, and then describe what you are seeing in words (hopefully interesting words). FIFTY was the first novel in The Detonation Series! HARRIS and FIRE & WATER completed that series.They were followed by The Preservation Series! BROKEN UNION – War in the West, BU – War in the East and BU – Preserved.Now I'm working on a fantasy series. The first three novels were MACLYNN, THE BLAKNAR SISTERS and INNER CIRCLE. I'm working on the 4th novel in the series: BIG IRON.

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  Writer

  Self-Employed

  Jan 2013 - Present

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  North Carolina State University