Lawrence M. Schoen

Welcome to another installment of asking authors about their favorite meals, a weekly feature that came about because I spend a lot of time writing about a self-confessed foodie.

This week, we hear from John Hemry. He’s a retired naval officer whose fiction aptly illustrates the write-what-you-know rubric, as evidenced by his series Stark’s War (Stark’s War, Stark’s Command, and the forthcoming Stark’s Crusade) as well as his JAG in Space series (A Just Determination, Burden of Proof, Rule of Evidence, and Against All Enemies).

John also , writes under the not-so-secret, action-hero sobriquet of Jack Campbell, where he’s thrilled readers with his Lost Fleet series (Dauntless, Fearless, Courageous, Valiant, Relentless, and Victorious). You’d think that’d be enough, but you can’t keep a good pseudonym down, and Jack Campbell has two additional series in the works, Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier (which has already seen its first volume, Dreadnaught published) and The Phoenix Stars. And somewhere in there, John finds time to write short fiction too, having contributed to the first three books in the small press Defending the Future series (Breach the Hull, So It Begins, and By Other Means) and as a regular in the pages of Analog Magazine.

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