I'm Todd, aka T.A. Stone, Todd Stone, and a couple of others. I'm an author. My latest book is NOVELIST'S BOOT CAMP; 101 Ways to Take your Fiction from Boring to Bestseller. It's from Writers Digest Books.

I've also published two mysteries about an emotionally traumatized former FBI profiler turned PI who pursues some very sadistic killers in Chicago's affluent suburbs (CLOSE TO HOME and NO PLACE LIKE HOME).

My two technothrillers are KRIEGSPIEL, a military technothriller published by Presidio Press (Random House) and THE BEST DEFENSE.

I ride a motorcycle, a ''97 Valkyrie

I'm a veteran -- former Army Airborne Ranger infantry officer. My last assignment was as an assistant professor at West Point. I live in a perfectly normal suburb of Chicago .

And oh yeah, I have a kilt collection.