About the Author

Mitch Egan Slate wrote his first book at the age of 4, one Sunday morning in Church, somewhere between the opening hymn and benediction. His mother gave him a pen to keep him quiet and occupied, so he wrote his first novel on the back of a Church bulletin entitled, "Hunting with Uncle Dick". Fifty-four years later he wrote his second book, "Dying's Not What it's Cracked Up to Be!" following the death of his mother and a very personal experience he had with what he believes to have been his own brief death. Mitch realized that we have been conditioned to fear death, as if there is nothing left after it occurs, when we really should be celebrating it as a new beginning with endless possibilities. "The Rise And Fall Of The Third Reservoir", a novel centered around his life growing up along the Delaware River Valley in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York, gave him a chance to create a fictitious adventure based around a series of events that lead to a horrific dam break and to introduce to his readers the most influential person (other than his grandmother with her three-tailed strap) in his life - his grandfather. The deep admiration for his grandfather can easily be felt in all of Mitch's books, sans the elder man's pervasive cussing. "Brother, Forgive Them" followed and gave Mitch a chance to voice his dissatisfaction with the direction the world has turned and create a story of what would happen if instead of Jesus's return, God sends a beautiful young woman to confront the evil that is destroying the earth, in one final attempt to save it before he renders his final judgement. Since moving to northeast Florida many years ago and retiring from the baking industry, some serious health issues surfaced and Mitch took that as an opportunity to put fingertip to keyboard and express his thoughts, imagination and sense of humor, as he did sitting next to his stern faced mother in Church.