Floyd and his wife, Christine, lived in Austria for 15 years and traveled extensively. He is fluent in German. He spent over a year in Russia, adding Russian as one of the languages he attempts to speak. He returned to the USA, entered official academia, and has been teaching intercultural studies ever since (plus German and international relations, and world religions). Having received enough degrees to freeze a polar bear (two bachelor’s degrees, two and a half master’s degrees, and one PhD), in 2024, he and Christine retired to a small house in the country in Western Montana. He has eight grandchildren whom he tortures with his stories of his travels. After publishing “Death Came Calling, But I Wasn’t Home,” he switched to writing nonfiction. This is Floyd’s first novel, which he hopes to turn into a series.