To Summon The Blackbird (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781507634400)

Ken Doggett has been writing for years, mostly short stories published in various Science Fiction magazines, including Space & Time, Shayol, and Amazing Stories. Now he self publishes his own novels and short-story collections. Growing up in the sunny Southeastern U.S., he developed a love for reading right after he discovered the school library. He read almost everything, but was especially fascinated by the fantastic tales of spaceships, space exploration, and conflict among the stars. He eventually discovered writers who would become his favorites-Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, John W. Campbell, and later, Larry Niven and Harlan Ellison. He graduated from Avondale High School just outside Atlanta, and after a stint in the U.S. Army assigned to the 2nd Armored Division at Ft. Hood, Texas, he worked in the field of electronics and electronic technology. After a few years of reading all of those great Science Fiction stories, he decided to try his hand at writing some of his own, and placed his first published story, Timestopper, in the July 1981 issue of Amazing Stories. Eventually, with more of his stories reaching publication, he became a veteran writer in the Science Fiction genre. But he has done more in the arts than write a few stories. He once thought he could draw and paint pictures, and he created and sold a few landscape paintings, both oil and acrylic. He currently lives in a rural farming community in Morgan County, Georgia, where he now writes full time.