Michael Sledge

I've always read...and I imagine you have, too. While Soldier Dead is my foray into the nonfiction world (thank you, Columbia University Press for your support), fiction is my long standing and ever constant love.

Fiction that interests me, and which I try to write, is neither totally plot nor character based. Rather, I imagine and try to bring to life interesting characters whose actions in an unusual setting provide a reader the opportunity to sidestep day-to-day affairs and to embark upon a journey of the mind and spirit.

Hopefully, at the end, a reader will leave the story feeling as though he or she has lived in the pages.

Mike Sledge