Gary L. Fisher, a first-time author with DocUmeant Publishing, has retired from a life-long profession of television and video production, working in commercial television stations, hospital video production and in a community college setting in Iowa, Florida, and Tennessee. 

He has written, produced or directed over 5,000 television commercials, documentary scripts, informational programs and many television productions. His 45-year career in the field has won him awards and citations for excellence in video production. 

Upon his retirement to Florida he turned to writing a novel that grew out of ancestral research and exploration of his family tree. His hobbies include barbershop singing, travel, writing and spending time with his wife, Marilyn, daughter Sarah and two dogs in the beach community of Venice on the Gulf of Mexico.