Kosiara, Ari V.: - Hailing from Freeland, Michigan, Ari V. Kosiara is an avid lover of strategic online games and has a fascination with world history, military history and strategy, and the extensive mysteries of outer space. He has spent countless hours researching historical conflicts and the great expanse beyond planet earth-an endless source of creative inspiration for his fiction. Chronics 1: Viktor Koshark's Journal is his debut novel and the first in a planned series.