Grunt Hero

Weston Ochse is the author of more than twenty-five books, including the SEAL Team 666 series, which the New York Post called "required reading," and the military science fiction hit Grunt Life. His first novel, Scarecrow Gods, won the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel, and his short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. His work has appeared in comic books, and magazines such as Cemetery Dance and Soldier of Fortune. His work has been lauded by Joe R. Lansdale, Peter Straub, Kevin J. Anderson, John Skipp, Brian Keene, and Jonathan Maberry, and has also been praised by the New York Times, New York Post, Washington Post, Denver Post, the Financial Times of London, and the Examiner. His last name is pronounced "oaks." Together with his first name, it sounds like a stately trailer park. He lives in the Arizona desert within rock throwing distance of Mexico. For fun he races tarantula wasps and watches the black helicopters dance along the horizon.

Todd McLaren was involved in radio for more than twenty years in cities on both coasts, including Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. He left broadcasting for a full-time career in voice-overs, where he has been heard on more than 5,000 TV and radio commercials, as well as TV promos; narrations for documentaries on such networks as A&E, Discovery, and the History Channel; and films, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit?