Kent Nelson is the author of nine books of fiction, including The Touching That Lasts and Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still. He has a North American life bird list of 748 species and has run the Pikes Peak Marathon twice. He lives in Ouray, Colorado.
I live alone 40 miles from Tucson and work at home translating movie scripts from German into English. Before this, for ten years, I worked at Farrar, Strauss in New York, handling German novels and film rights, which I parlayed into...