Craig Suter:  

After PV, and a semester of Pima College, I went to work in Des Moines Iowa as a machinist. Two Iowa winters were all this Tucson native could tolerate and I came home. I worked in a number of machine shops over the years including a five year stint out at Hughes Aircraft. The politics of a place like Hughes and I do not get along and I left after five years there to start my own business servicing industrial machine tools. In 1997, arthritis sidelined me and I was medically retired. One can only play so much Nintendo, so I went back to Pima College. I was looking at getting a Business Management degree, which seemed pointless since I had successfully operated businesses in the past. Fate had a different plan for me. From a three page writing assignment at Pima, the outline of a non-fiction book was developed. Over the next three plus years, I researched and wrote The Inventor's War: The Durable Ideas and Innovations of World War Two. Just as it was ready to begin the editing process, I suffered a series of heart attacks and strokes. The next nine years were difficult. The first year, I was not expected to live more than a year. They did not even know what was wrong with me. I finally diagnosed myself as having a genetic blood-clotting disease and in the process, the doctors found that I had a second totally unrelated clotting disorder. Over the next three years, I was hospitalized nineteen times. Somehow, I managed to get through the rough patches and by 2010, was feeling well enough to get back to the book. It took another year to rewrite, edit and do all off the other stuff involved with producing a book. On Memorial Weekend 2011, The Inventor's War came out. Now I would love to say it hit the Best-seller's lists and got optioned for movie rights, but that just does not happen to most books. Sales have been constant and it has received international attention and critical acceptance. I've sold copies overseas and to some major universities, which is pretty cool just in itself. I have begun working on volume two of The Inventor's War and have several more book ideas in the works. I remain as healthy and as active as I can, but, outliving a death sentence by ten years means that, to me, every day is a gift. I should note somewhere here that I have been married four times, and...Expand for more