About the Author
Don Callander is a 70-year-old retired travel writer/photographer and graphic designer now living in Orange City, Florida. His first published novel was Pyromancer. Since then he has published four additional novels in his 'Mancer series, and three in his Dragon series. They are Pyromancer, Aquamancer, Geomancer, Aeromancer, Marbleheart; and Dragon Companion, Dragon Rescue, and Dragon Tempest. Don was born in Minneapolis, brought up in Duluth, Minnesota, and graduated from high school there before enlisting in the U. S. Navy in l947. After serving four years on active duty (including the Korean War) he transferred to the Naval Reserve where he served as a 'weekend warrior' for twenty additional years. He settled in Washington, D.C., where he married, raised four children, and worked on the Washington Post newspaper and in National Headquarters of the American Automobile Association (40,000,000 members!) until his retirement in l991.