Ted’s parents encouraged him to be an avid reader. His family were storytellers. Chosen to be an editor for a creative writing magazine in his senior year of high school, Ted was on his way to a writing career when life’s circumstances forced him to choose a different path. When Ted’s daughter was born, he told and wrote children’s stories for her entertainment. He continued to write poetry, short stories, and short novellas all the while becoming interested in alternate history, realizing that a decision here or a phrase there could’ve changed history as we know it.