J.L. Curtis was born in Louisiana and was raised in the Arkansas-Louisiana-Texas area. He is a retired naval flight officer who served over twenty years in postings all around the world. Jim is also a retired research and development test engineer for the defense industry. A long-time NRA instructor, he now lives in north Texas writing full time. He has written thirteen novels as part of three different series: The Grey Man (urban fiction), Rimworld (military science fiction), and The Bell Chronicles (western). He also has written a number of novellas and short stories for sixteen different anthologies from various publishers.
