John Wemlinger is a retired US Army colonel with 27 years of military service. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War, where he was a helicopter maintenance officer and pilot. The Road to Empire is his sixth novel. He speaks often at libraries, service clubs, churches, and book clubs about his books and his writing methods. In his spare time, he serves as a member of the Onekama Village Council. He lives for most of the year in northern Michigan, close to the Lake Michigan shoreline, with his wife, Diane, and their border collie, Sydney.He can be contacted at his website, www.johnwemlinger.com, or you are invited to follow him on Facebook.
