British-born Nigel Hey is a career journalist, publisher, and science writer. He is the author of six books -- Wonderment, The Star Wars Enigma, Solar System, and three early young-adult science titles -- and manages a personal blog at http://adobe-hacienda.blogspot.com/. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science “for meritorious efforts to advance science and its applications, in the process of four decades of outstanding service in presenting science and technology to the public.” He maintains residences in New Mexico and London. Other books include three out-of-print popular-science titles.His writings also include several reference works and hundreds of articles in publications ranging from Smithsonian to the London Sunday Times. He was a contributing author for The Science Book (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001) and The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook (2005). He sold his first story to the BBC at the age of 11, and began working part-time for U.S. newspapers in his teens. He worked briefly for UPI after gaining a degree in mass communications, worked for two years at the daily Bermuda Mid-Ocean News, where he designed and edited a weekly magazine supplement, and subsequently joined Sandia National Laboratories as a science/technology writer and media relations specialist. He was a Sandia senior administrator (internal consultant) at the time he left to start his small-business consultancy in October 2001.At other times he served as managing editor of the state’s first offset tabloid newspaper, the weekly Albuquerque News, and editorial director of the London-based publications arm of IMS International (now Dun & Bradstreet’s IMS Health). Nigel Hey’s life story has been both enriched and endangered by a deep sense of curiosity that fills his world with adventures of mind and body. His personal journey began with an asthmatic childhood in which a specter appeared in a dream and pleaded for help. Early on, he resolved to understand and rise above the challenges posed by the unpredictable life experiences that would take form as he grew into manhood. He reasoned that one way he could do this was by becoming a writer and journalist. In his boyhood he moved with his parents to a new home, touching off a semi-nomadic five years that eventually took him to the American West, torn between a love of his native Lancashire and Yorkshire and the adventuresome unknowns of future life.With his university years complete, he headed for his first full-time newspaper job, in Bermuda, then a second in England. These marked the start of an exhilarating roller-coaster life in which he became a science writer and achieved professional success at Sandia National Laboratories while fulfilling the responsibilities of parenthood and enduring the heartaches of two failed marriages. Throughout, he lived the life of a genuinely curious man, exploring the vestiges of colonial Spain that survive in the mountains of the American Southwest, driving a tunnel in the remote mountains of Greece, dancing with native Americans, uncovering the history of high-tech Soviet weapon science, exploring his North-of-England roots, travelling the world. Read the details in his book Wonderment!