Christopher Ransom is a novelist and copywriter who works in big tech. He is the internationally bestselling author of seven novels, including The Birthing House, The People Next Door, and The Fading. During the five years he spent working on The Turn, he played more than four hundred rounds of golf, lowered his handicap by fifteen strokes, made two aces in the span of thirty-three days, lost twenty pounds, and ended his thirty-year run with alcohol. He lives in Longmont, Colorado. His home course is Twin Peaks.