Terry R. Bacon

Terry R. Bacon is a poet, playwright, and novelist, author of the Sonny Marshall series of suspense thrillers (Storm Warning and Storm Damage) and The Cerulean Ark, a science-fiction thriller. He is also the award-winning author of a dozen non-fiction titles, including The Elements of Power, Elements of Influence, and What People Want. Executive Excellence magazine named him one of the Top 100 Thinkers on Leadership in the World. He has a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from the American University and a B.S. in Engineering from West Point.

In his varied career, he has been a soldier, an intelligence agent, an educator, a political activist, a corporate leader, a global consultant, and a world traveler. He now resides in the mountains of southwest Colorado with his wife, Debra. He was the sax player in a rock band in his youth and today plays the alto and tenor saxophone, guitar, and baritone ukulele. He studies history and cosmology in his spare time and is an active blogger when he is not working on another writing project. His latest project is a speculative, near-future thriller entitled Escape from Trumerica, which will be published later in 2026.