DEL GARRETT grew up in Galveston County, Texas, and graduated from the Defense Information School of Journalism in 1979. He took post graduate courses at the University of Oklahoma in 1981. His news and feature stories have appeared in international newspapers and magazines. His first fiction story appeared in Louis L'Amour's Western Magazine in 1995. He has also been published in Blood Moon Rising, GateWay Science Fiction, and Storyteller Magazine. WHILE THE ANGELS SLEPT is his fourth novel. He lives in Jacksonville, Arkansas, and is active in several writers groups and the annual Arkansas Writers' Conference. www.authorsden.com/delgarrett