Donald Drake started his writing career at the tender age of Fifty. He has written articles for newsletters, and the inspiration for writing fiction came from feedback from one of those articles. Donald's deep connection to his Celtic roots gave him the background for his characters and names. Donald is a practicing Druid, concentrating in the Scot's- Irish pantheneon of religious studies. Donald is married to the former LeeAnn Merrill, and has two dogs that are his constant companions and shadows. Donald has four more books in the works to the series, "The Chronicles of the Kings of Randor" of which The Coming of the One is the first.