Shaun Roundy

Shaun Roundy's cv reads like a character from an action-adventure movie. Alongside writing half a dozen books in various styles, he taught university writing for 15 years, climbed 18,000' mountains, sailed 2,500 miles through two oceans, speaks half a dozen languages, lived on five continents and a tropical island, saved dozens of lives as a Search and Rescue volunteer for 25 years, appeared on NPR's All Things Considered, the Discovery Channel's "Raging Planet - Blizzards", and KUED's award-winning documentaries "Search and Rescue" and "Secrets of the Lost Canyon", along with many appearances on international news. The list goes on and on.

As a writer, he seeks primarily to educate, entertain, and inspire. "The best thing about writing is hearing that my readers stayed up all night reading because they couldn't stop, or laughed or shouted out loud, or that the plot caught them totally by surprise, or that they related to some character or insight that changed their life."