J Scott PayneJ. Scott Payne began his writing career as a cub reporter for the Kansas Star. After service with the U.S. Army in Korea, Vietnam and-worst of all-Washington, D.C., he worked as a reporter and editor of several Midwestern newspapers and magazies. Now retired, he and his wife, Jane, live in a small west Michigan college town where they enjoy the woods, the birds and the battles-or maybe games-between Burt, their big black cat, and Bailey, the little white terrier. Read More Read Less