Ed Welter

About the Author

A resident of Portland, OR USA, I have a lifetime of unusual experiences. I have traveled the world extensively (over 60 countries and lived in three), lived through two of the largest hurricanes ever recorded, bicycled ever road/trail/path in both Portland, OR and Guadalajara, Mexico...accounting for 6,000 miles of riding just in those cities alone. Rock climbed for 27 years. Have jumped from on ship to another during a high seas storm in the Bering Sea. Once had 65,000 coloring crayons in a collection that went back into the mid 1800s in which I personally wrote the history of the crayon because I found nobody had ever done so. I helped a professor at Oxford to identify whether Edvard Munch, the painter of 'The Scream' used a commercial crayon back in the late 1800s to do his two preliminary sketches of the painting. I was the only person in the world that had the majority of the physical crayons from that era. I was one of the first users of Rollerblades. I later tested inline skates for Nike and wheels for Kryptonite and skated all over the world. I have written five novels but published none. I'm currently finishing the editing work on a sci-fi trilogy. I write short stories because I find them so accessible and fun to explore multiple genres.