FYI, I am a longtime and widely published writer-photographer. Here's the book-jacket bio on my action-adventure novel, THE MONEY TREE, available as a Kindle Book at Amazon.com: Articles, fiction and photos for the SATURDAY EVENING POST, GRAY'S SPORTING JOURNAL, GOLF and TENNIS magazines, MOTOR BOATING & SAILING, HOME & AWAY, the DENVER POST, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION and dozens of other newspapers, magazines and websites have taken writer-photographer Sam Mills to four continents and nearly 40 foreign countries. In addition, his work has appeared in the literary magazines of both the University of Wisconsin and the University of Chicago. Born in Brownsville, Texas, Mills grew up in the mountains of Western North Carolina, locale for his action-adventure novel, THE MONEY TREE He attended UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Journalism and graduate school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He is a former staff member of the MOTHER EARTH NEWS, the SAVANNAH NEWS-PRESS, the ISLAND PACKET and ISLANDER magazine, and for a number of years was the Hilton Head Island, SC, sports stringer for both AP and UPI. He is a winner of both the University of Wisconsin short story contest and the Ned Ramsaur Travel Writing Award, given annually by the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism to the State's top travel writer. He now lives near Asheville, NC, and can be reached at sam@sammills.com.