Mac Laird

After a career in telecommunications with the U.S. Navy, Mac Laird found his niche in America’s Eastern Woodlands and began to build with the natural materials from the land in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. In time, he started writing about that land and the people. His first book, "Quail High Above the Shenandoah” (2007) gives a vivid account of building with logs. Nominated by the Library of Virginia for the 14th Annual fiction award, “Dangerous Differences” leads the reader through the wonders of the mountains, rivers, and forests of Virginia and North Carolina and introduces the troubling differences between the frontier Indians and settlers of the new world. The sequel, now under review, will be released May 27, 2012. The author and his wife, Johnnie, now live in Williamsburg, VA.