ANTHONY DELANEY grew up in California. He ran a bank there for six years, lived and worked in the Middle East for eighteen years and retired to the South of France where he lived for three more years. His return to the United States impressed upon him the need to find a focal point for his energies. He tried painting but was disappointed with his efforts. In 2009 he took a job with the Navy Museum in Washington DC where he wrote contracts for their operations. Although he loved his work and the museum, he felt that after two years it was time to move on. Now he lives in the Deep South and has a new point of interest. Always a lover of books, he has decided to learn the self-publishing business. To that end he wrote "The Nonsense Rhymes of A. Bootrus Walley" and "Valvazor and the Glass Mountain." He is working on another A. Bootrus Walley book, a collection of short stories and the thing closest to his heart, a murder mystery set in Champagne and Bordeaux, France.