N. P. Simpson

I just spent my first year in Wilmette, IL, after having lived in the South most of my life. Winter in the Midwest is all it's reputed to be. Brutal. However, people here seem to hang onto their patience as well as their hats. The Midwest's high summer humidity has been surprising, however, although mostly devoid of the ticks and chiggers and sand fleas that plague the South.

I know my humidity. I sold my first short story years ago when I was living with my ex in Okinawa, Japan. Several other short stories followed, then -- back stateside -- a shot at a true-crime book about an unsolved triple homicide at Camp Lejeune (which I've updated as "Tunnel Vision") and a police procedural novel set on the same Marine Corps base. The novel, "Camp Lejeune Death Investigation: Paradise Point," features a female NCIS agent. I have just published another novel featuring that same agent but set at Guantanamo -- American and Cuban sides -- during the 1991 Haitian migrant crisis.

My author's website is: authornpsimpson.com, which, I confess, I don't update as frequently as I should. You can see that in addition to Japanese culture and military settings, I am intrigued by the peculiar sometimes-symbiotic, sometimes-parasitic relationship between Blacks and Whites in the Jim Crow South.

I promise to respond to all emails and welcome honest criticism as well as kudos.

N. P. Simpson