Runcina Terrae: Flight of the Phoenix

by Robert Krause, Adrian Kim (Illustrator)

284 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 3, 2022

About the author

Robert Krause was born in New Rochelle, NY in 1971, but was raised in Carmel, NY where he graduated high school. Upon graduating from Western New England University in Springfield, MA with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, he went on to Graduate coursework in Developmental Biology at Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, CT. He had many different employment paths from Laboratory Technician at Abbott Laboratories in North Chicago to Director of Operations at an optical imaging company in NYC. He worked on, at the time, Top Secret documentation from World War II reparations from Swiss Bank in NYC and was a High School Biology teacher in Pawling NY, winning Who’s Who of American High School Teachers twice in his 4 years. His last, and probably his longest employment was as a Deputy Sheriff in rural Montana; a job he says fulfilled all his ADD dreams, as it was never the same nor routine. Robert is married to his second wife Caryn, and has two children, Caitlin and William, from a previous marriage. He enjoys getting together with friends from High School to role-play games like D&D and plays the bagpipes in several local bands. Robert is 2nd generation from Glasgow, Scotland, and is very proud of that heritage, belonging to Clan MacFarlane. In his younger years, he competed in bagpipes and won many band competitions with the Putnam County Sheriff’s pipe band, earning a grade 3 status in band competition. Robert played bagpipes for President George W. Bush on the U.S. Capitol steps, led the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and played on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter ‘Eagle’. He still plays with local pipe bands for fun and teaches solo players, The U.S. Military Academy pipe band at West Point, and the FDNY EMS pipe band.