Tim Black was a history teacher for the Martin County School District from 1979-2004. He sold his first short story in 1975 for $25, photocopied the check before he cashed it and framed the photocopy. Throughout his teaching career he moonlighted as a freelance writer for several Florida regional magazines and The Palm Beach Post, Miami Herald and Orlando Sentinel. He also wrote for Armchair General and Military History Quarterly, and The Times of London (the Queen’s paper). As far as he knows he is the only writer to receive payment from the Florida Bar Journal (He wrote a humor column under a pen name Judge Crater). While teaching he never had enough time to write a book and, having married a woman with five children as well as siring two more, he was more concerned with income than writing the great American novel. However, when he retired from teaching and the children had flown the nest he began to write books, beginning with Daydreams & Diaries by Taylor and Tim Black. That first book, rewritten five times, was published by California publisher Untreed Reads. D & D is the story of Taylor’s fight against brain cancer, a fight that she lost twenty years ago. Tim then went on to write two novels set in South Florida, a WW II historical novel, The Man from Banner Lake, and a science fiction novel Eye. After science fiction, he wrote a four volume Young Adult Historical Novel series in US History for middle schoolers and another historical novel Residents of History, dealing with the civilians at the Battle of Gettysburg. He then wrote a God-awful romantic novel which, it seems, is unintentionally funny. During The Pandemic he has written a Civil War novel A Song of Love and Loss and a memoir of his boyhood in the 1950s, Boyhood, Baseball, Bobby and Bill. In The Pandemic he also wrote two screenplays based on his two South Florida novels. No, Tim does not know Stephen King or James Patterson and he doubts if they know him.