Lawrence Kane is the author of Surviving Armed Assaults and Martial Arts Instruction and co-author of The Way of Kata, The Way to Black Belt, and the Little Black Book of Violence (all published by YMAA). He has also completed a fiction book, Blinded by the Night, which has not been published yet.

Lawrence has written numerous articles on martial arts, self-defense, and related topics for prestigious publications such as Jissen, Fighting Arts, Gospel Martial Arts Union, and Traditional Karate magazine. A paid book reviewer for ForeWord Magazine and Clarion Reviews, he is an advisory board reviewer for YMAA Publication Center and consults with other authors from time to time to help assure realism in their novels.

Since 1970, he has studied and taught traditional Asian martial arts, medieval European combat, and modern close-quarter weapon techniques. Working stadium security part-time, he has been involved in hundreds of violent altercations, but gets paid to watch football. To cover the bills, he develops sourcing strategies for an aerospace company where he gets to play with billions of dollars of other people's money and make really important decisions.

Lawrence can be reached via email at lakane@ix.netcom.com.