: About Me

J. A. Hunsinger lives in Colorado, USA, with his wife Phyllis. The first novel of his character-driven, historical fiction series, Axe of Iron The Settlers, represents his first serious effort to craft the story of a lifelong interest in the Viking Ageespecially as it pertains to Norse exploration west of Icelandand extensive research and archaeological site visitations as an amateur historian. He has tied the discovery of many of the Norse artifacts found on this continent to places and events portrayed in his novels.

Much of his adult life has been associated with commercial aviation, both in and out of the cockpit. As an Engineering Technical Writer for Honeywell Commercial Flight Systems Group, Phoenix, AZ, he authored two comprehensive pilots' manuals on aircraft computer guidance systems and several supplemental aircraft radar manuals. His manuals were published and distributed worldwide to airline operators by Honeywell Engineering, Phoenix, AZ. He also published an article, Flight Into Danger, in Flying Magazine, (August 2002).

American Institute of Archaeology, Canadian Archaeology Association, MIPA-Midwest Independent Publishers Association, and IBPA-Independent Book Publishers Association, are among the fraternal and trade organizations in which he holds membership.

My passion is ...

Writing/publishing

I know too much about ...

The medieval Greenland Vikings

My parents always told me ...

Everything that I value

My childhood ambition ...

Too long ago to remember

My favorite memory ...

Marrying Phyllis and writing my tales of the Vikings

Why I write ...

I have a series of stories to tell.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Avid reader of historical fiction and research papers on the medieval Vikings

My first job ...

Who remembers

My best moment ...

When I held my first published book in my hand

My inspiration ...

To finish my six book Axe of Iron series and have people want to read them

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The Medieval Greenland Vikings Can Teach Us About Climate Change The Northern Hemisphere of this planet is in a normal warming cycle. It began to manifest itself as the preceding cycle, the Mini-Ice Age (1300-1800), wound down about the mid-19th century. Nothing in global climate happens overnight. Each cycle is of about 500-years duration. With that assumption, we can say that the midpoint of this warming cycle that we are enjoying will be about 2100. In other words, historically speaking, we can expect the climate to gradually trend toward warmer and dryer for the next 92-years. Then it ...

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