Space Pilot Connor Grant (Templeman) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—1970
• Where—Seattle, Washington, USA
• Education—B.A., University of California, Berkeley
• Awards—CODIE Award (computer games industry award)
• Currently—currently lives in California


Born in Seattle, WA in 1970, Templeman spent his childhood moving around the world as his parents chased one adventure after another. From his family's American-style pizza franchise—the first of its kind in Australia—to the oil business in Dallas, Texas, to owning Kentucky Derby co-favorite, Total Departure (1982), Templeman learned that the key ingredient to making any dream happen is belief.

Templeman has worked in the computer games industry, specializing in sci-fi games for seventeen years. He produced the game, "Ascendancy," first released in 1996, which won the CODIE Award for Best Strategy Software, and is now on the iTunes App Store, where it has been featured globally as a Staff Favorite. Before that he attended UC Berkeley, majoring in English. He lives with his family in California.

Templeman began work on SPCG with his seven year old son, as they told stories together about space. He finished the first book in the series when his son was fifteen, and readers will see the characters in the book mature throughout. No—the author having fully succumbed to the writing bug—Book Two in the "Space Pilot" series is in progress, and will be on the shelves soon. The first four chapters of Book Two, Sheyn's Retreat are included in the current edition of Space Pilot Connor Grant as an excerpt at the end. (From the author.)