Jack R. Stanley is an award-winning novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. As an officer and combat photographer in Vietnam where he was awarded the Bronze Star. Yet, he says, When you’re in a firefight, and everybody else on both sides has guns while all you have a camera — you get to change your pants a lot. After his military service, he received both his M.A. and his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in Radio-TV-Film. His doctoral dissertation was on the long-running TV series GUNSMOKE. Stanley also won two of Michigan(1)s most prestigious creative writing awards. Still married to his gifted high school sweetheart, Stanley spent 30 years teaching Theatre-TV-Film in deep-south Texas at The University of Texas-Pan American. He directed for the stage at The University Theatre, produced and directed fifteen student-staffed, cast, and crewed feature films — writing most of the original screenplays. A few of his credits are available on IMDB.com. He now lives in the Texas Panhandle, where he writes his fiction and runs his blog, www.TheFictionWritersNotebook.com . His webpage is www.jackrstanley.com .