Erik Kort writes fantasy novels under his own name, co-written with author Lee French, and under the open pen name Erik Marshall. He abides in the glorious Pacific Northwest, otherwise known as Mirkwood-Without-The-Giant-Spiders. Although the spiders often grow too numerous for his comfort. He is defended from all eight-legged threats by his brave and overly tolerant wife, and is mocked by his obligatory writer’s cat. When not writing, Erik comforts the elderly, guides the youth through vast wildernesses, and smuggles more books into his library of increasingly alarming size.