BOB FRANK

BACKGROUND:

Raised on an Iowa farm, I spent summer afternoons in corn fields daydreaming of adventures in faraway lands. At seventeen, while war raged in Southeast Asia, I joined the Army and graduated from West Point as an airborne paratrooper. But my years of duty were spent staring at Russian machine guns on the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.

A nearly 40 year career followed in cyber security traveling to every corner of the world. Always known for fantastic storytelling, I finally ended the travels and sat down to write fiction challenge people's minds.

To write about paranormal, I became a certified hypnotherapist in past life regressions to probe peoples' minds on what "could be" in their "past". It was a lot of fun.

That experience took me to be on the Board of Directors for 6 years of the 40+ year old International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS); the last two of which I was president. It blew my mind to relate to thousands of people who died and returned from the "other realm". Dealing with so many "enlightened" individuals has tremendously opened my eyes to a real world around us; often not the one that we are led to believe.