JAY MacLARTY

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Jay MacLarty was born in Spirit Lake, Iowa, and grew up in the Midwest (Iowa, Nebraska, and Minnesota). As an adult, he has lived for extended periods in Florida, California, Nevada, and Colorado. He’s been married twice (“not very successful at that”), and has two children.

An entrepreneur since the age of twenty, MacLarty has been described as the ultimate risk-taker, his business ventures both varied and unique. Having put together a nation-wide chain of restaurants and nightclubs before the age of thirty, he turned his attention to the organizational business, founding a chain of retail stores, and a small software company.

In his spare time MacLarty created one of the first computerized handicapping programs for Thoroughbred racing, then “ran away to play the ponies.” Following his two-year sojourn into the world of “high rollers and hustlers,” MacLarty turned his energy toward politics, spending a year working inside the administration of a presidential campaign.

Always an avid reader, MacLarty finally turned his attention toward the written word, working nights and weekends on a lengthy and sweeping ethnic saga. The manuscript was “well reviewed,” but judged “too long and literary” for a first-time novelist, and he was told to “go write the popular book first.”

That book became The Courier – the first in a series starring common-man hero Simon Leonidovich – a high-tech thriller, drawing on MacLarty’s unique background of business, politics, and high-tech. He is currently working on a stand-alone work of fiction.

MacLarty now spends much of his time "on the road,” searching for new adventures, new stories, new voices.