The Next Skywatcher: Prequel to The Last Skywatcher Triple Trilogy Series (The Last Skywatcher, Anasazi Historical Thrillers with a Hint of Romance Book 1) (39 page)

“Tell me now for real,” said Vingta. “Are you going down into the canyon after you get the potter girl or not?”

“I tell you,” said Tut, “that new chief warrior who ran you off, and that builder-crazy High Priest, they’re doing things like they did before Old Tuwa cleaned the place out. They may have been born here, but they’ve got the hearts of old Southerners. You don’t know, because you’ve been chasing your shiny cubes all over the high country. Down here, they have the farmers and woodcutters and everybody else scared to death. And I’m not….”

Tut froze, his eyes staring along the road to the canyon. Vingta followed his gaze and saw motion. Men coming. Organized men. Men slow-running two abreast in lockstep, their long loincloths swinging back and forth, their black hair sculpted with animal grease gleaming in the morning light.

“We must go,” Tut hissed.

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In his mind
, Jeff Posey lives in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, while his body lives on a ridge of sand sitting on limestone that weathers to sticky-black mud. In his imagination, which comes out in his books, he spends a great deal of time in Anasaziland of a thousand years ago.

Yes, his first degree is in geology. But don’t let that fool you. His second degree is a masters in corporate finance. With half the work toward a masters in journalism thrown into the middle. What does that mean? It means he suffers
Attention Surplus Disorder
. Everything is interesting.

In the past fifteen years or so, the Anasazi and cultures that collapse have gotten most of his surplus attention.

“Cultures that have dramatically collapsed,” he says, “should at least compel us to dream up stories about how such things happen.”

After a five-year stint as a petroleum exploration geologists, he went on to serve as city editor for a metropolitan magazine, fiction editor for a national magazine, and publisher for a cooperative of hospitals.

Now he writes novels tied to his favorite part of the world in and around Pagosa Springs. You’ll see allusions to the ancient ones in all of his work, which he describes as rather like a huge ongoing meta-novel.

He and his wife, Danielle, spend as many weeks as possible each year in Pagosa Springs and Anasaziland, and Jeff makes long, looping, slow research trips through the area in a battered old brown pickup truck his father drove to the post office and back every day well into his nineties.

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 and his ever-growing collection of Anasazi-inspired author notes at
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