A Dead Artist Can Make a Good Living: The Adventures of Jonathan Owen (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781412072168)

Rick Thomas was born in Cardiff, Wales and immigrated with his parents to Canada in the 1950s. He attended the Vancouver School of Art in the 1960s and made his career in commercial art and marketing. He retired from the Government of British Columbia where he was a cartographer and artist working for the Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management. With the ministry biologists, botanists, meteorologists and surficial geologist, he mapped the ecological systems of the province.

Rick Thomas is a painter, resident set designer for the Victoria Operatic Society and fitness instructor at the local Y. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia and travels the world writing about his character Jonathan Owen. He is a bachelor with a daughter, Kim. His third book of the adventures of Jonathan Owen will be developed in Cuba in the Spring of 2006.