Jim Woods has published some 400 articles in national magazines, contributed to various fact and fiction anthologies, and is the author of eight print and e-books with treatments ranging from writing tutorial to fictional political assassination. He is a current world traveler, having set foot in more than sixty countries in on six continents. He is a former Editor, Managing Editor and Editorial Director with (then) Petersen publishing Company of Beverly Hills—Guns & Ammo and Petersen’s Hunting magazines; and Senior Field Editor with (then) Publishers Development Corporation, San Diego—Guns and Shooting Industry magazines. He’s a former big-game hunter and has written extensively on African safari, both the hunting and camera varieties, and his experiences in Africa lends expertise to his novels—two published; one in work—that are set in South Africa. He has been an Arizonan for thirty years, and lives and writes in Tucson.