J. McGregor “Greg” Colt was born and educated in the Puget Sound Region of the State of Washington. He studied Journalism at the University of Washington in the late Sixties and early Seventies but could not find a job in that industry. He spent forty-seven years in the real estate industry, half of which has in Hood River, Oregon along the Columbia River Gorge. Now retired, he has moved back up to the Puget Sound, lives on acreage in the rural North Kitsap Peninsula and spends his time writing.