A. Shane Etter is a former high tech sales professional who started writing fiction to improve his brain after a stroke. In addition to A War in The Bronx, he has four other published novels, a series of supernatural thrillers, Bottom Dwellers, Mind Dwellers and Trail Dwellers, set in north GA and NYC, plus A Brain in Third Person, his first ThomasMax-published work. Shane is a member of Clifford Brooks' Southern Collective Experience and the Prose Editor of that organization's literary journal, The Blue Mountain Review. Shane has taken writing classes under his mentor, two-time Pulitzer nominee, Jedwin Smith, author of Our Brother's Keeper, Fatal Treasure, among others. Shane enjoys working out and collecting and drinking wine in his spare time. He lives in a 22nd floor penthouse condominium in Sandy Springs, GA, with a view of the Atlanta skyline that inspires his writing and loves international and domestic travel. Shane is proud of his home state, Mississippi and all of the great writers that state has produced.