PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
ABOUT DON JOHNSTONI was born in East Texas a long time ago and grew up with a sister and a brother. When I was five years old, I found a tattered science book with several pages missing. The first intact page showed a monarch butterfly emerging from a chrysalis. I believe that incident was the ah-ha moment that drew me into the world of science.Upon completing high school, I joined the Air Force and served as a jungle survival instructor in Panama for three years. While in Panama, I wrote a weekly gossip column for the base newspaper and won 2nd prize in a short story contest. Following my military service, I enrolled in Stephen F. Austin State University and got married. After graduating with a degree in biology and chemistry, we moved to Houston where our only child, a son, was born.During the early years of my career as a chemist and biologist, I wrote numerous technical articles and research reports, some of which were published in trade journals. However, during that time, I wrote no fiction.Seventy-five years after the monarch butterfly incident, I retired from the corporate world and began to write as a hobby. Naturally, sci-fi was my genre of choice. My first novel, The Dar Lumbre Chronicles, was published in 2018, and I've been writing ever since. The Alamogordo Connection was my second novel, and By Means of Peace was my third. The next one, City on a Microchip, is in progress.
