Sean Michael Paquet is an author, investigative journalist, graphic artist and freelance writer who lives and works as an American Expatriate in the Philippines. He retired from active duty military service in 2013 after 24 years. He then was a private defense contractor in the Middle East until 2018. Sean is from a small town called Carp Lake in the Northern part of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. He grew up loving to read, write poetry, and had enough promise as an artist to consider it full-time until he decided to join the military. Sean has always had an interest in the weird, unusual, and strange things that exist on the fringes of our reality. His interest in heathenism, metaphysics, meditation and out of body experiences led him to publish his first novel titled A Game of Gods in June, 2020. His second novel, titled The Jarl's Shadow is a Work in Progress, and explores metaphysical concepts along with personality disorders while maintaining a science fiction/fantasy related backstory of unimaginable alien forces, lost civilizations, and conspiracy theories.