Ray Else has had a slew of jobs. He has loaded trucks for UPS, filled rat poison barrels on the night shift, digitized printed circuits, clerked at a department store, was a switcher for Channel 13 on the Texas border, installed inventory systems on oil rigs worldwide, and since 1995 has programmed for the likes of IBM and Rocket Software. When not coding or playing with his grandkids or making up plots for his First Kiss Mystery series (Bathing with the Dead, Her Heart in Ruins, All that we touch), he travels and blogs about those travels at rayelse.com.