Michael McGarrity
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Michael McGarrity is a New Mexican author and former law enforcement officer. He has written a dozen crime novels set in New Mexico and the American West trilogy, historical novels also set in New Mexico consisting of Hard Country, Backlands and The Last Ranch. As deputy sheriff of Santa Fe County he founded their Sex Crimes Unit. "The storytelling thing is no easy task. It’s a monster of a task to be able to do it right. I found out that I could do it wrong better than just about anybody. But I decided that I could learn. I could fight my way through it." "There are a few writers that can create something from their imagination that’s whole cloth. Ray Bradbury is a beautiful example of that. He wrote some absolutely incredible, brilliant science fiction about things that he had never experienced. Where he pulled that out of the cosmos I’ll never know. Maybe Ken Kesey isn’t all wrong. I, on the other hand, believe that really well-grounded experience is going to pay a lot of dividends to anybody who wants to write fiction."
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