About Us

Born and raised in central Minnesota, Dennis M. Myers developed a serious reading habit early in life due to the influence of his grandmother. When he was in 6th grade, she handed him a tattered copy of The Star Beast, by Robert A. Heinlein. Junior and senior high school was a time of intense reading. Azimov, Herbert, McCaffery, Niven, and every single book by Heinlein the library carried. In late high school he read one particularly "awful" book (by an author he still refuses to name) and, with all that teenage hubris, decided that he could do better. 

After high school, with limited prospects, he joined the United States Navy and became a submarine sailor. His first command after training was the USS Francis Scott Key, SSBN 657. He went on to become an instructor, teaching younger sailors the ins and outs of the ballistic missile fire control systems.

During this time his first published works, adventures for the RPG Traveller, appeared in Challenge Magazine.

After another brief tour at sea, he left the service to be near his children. A difficult decision financially, but one that prevented an extreme separation he found intolerable.

After a time flailing about, still compiling story ideas, seeking employment opportunities, and sinking financially, he settled in Richmond Virginia. By leveraging his hobby of writing code for fun he developed what eventually became a software development career. (He is in Wikipedia under the BBS software entry for WWIV.)

In 2008 he met a woman who made him laugh, and more importantly, she laughed at his jokes. After nearly a year of communicating solely online, he took a chance and headed to the other side of the planet to meet her in person. A gamble that paid off more than there are words to explain. After a year of paperwork, waiting on government bureaucracy, his new bride came to America, and they have been happily married ever since. 

In 2017 he had the unique opportunity to spend several months between jobs without financial worries. With the full support of the aforementioned wife, he sat down to write a story, chosen at random, in his timeline. That story, Final Assembly, became the foundation for his Automated Empire novels. The first series, Rise of the Automated Empire is finished, and all four novels are available on Amazon.

He is still a software developer by trade, after all he has bills to pay, but from that first moment of teenage hubris, he has been an author at heart. He is currently working on several new projects and has at least one on submission at any given time.

Note from the Author:

All of the products on this site are printed and shipped through Printify. Some of the designs include AI generated content. A few include works of art by Bryon Gibson, used with the permission of his estate. All original cover art for the novel tie-ins was created by J. Caleb Designs and is owned by my Publisher (to whom I pay a ten percent royalty).

The art contained in the Exclusive Art section was created by Lynn E. Baker. He is my uncle, and I'll split the profit from those works with him.

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