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Ted Olson graduated from the University of Utah in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science degree in mass communication. He began a copywriting career that, over the next 31 years, would allow him to write for companies such as American Express, Dow Chemical, Newport News Shipbuilding, Saturn, Bank of America, Texas Instruments, Stanford University, Johnson Matthey, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, Coca-Cola, and many other Fortune 100 heavy hitters. Midway in is career, he began focusing on fiction. In 2019 he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. He founded Story Road, LLC, his developmental editing and consulting firm, in 2020. When he's not writing or editing, he p ...more

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Three years after our failed attempt to see Cape Wrath, I had a chance to return to Scotland. I’d begun writing the first draft shortly after that first trip in 1995. The story had taken off. I’d formed a vague plot in my head, and I’d pursued it. But writing is fluid, and the narrative was heading to places I’d considered but knew little about—Dundee, Dornoch, and Lanark among them. More to see a Read more of this blog post »
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“The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law.”
Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

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