With 12 books in print, G. Michael Vasey is an established author with notable contributions in poetry, metaphysics, and business. His first novel – The Last Observer (Roundfire 2013) – was published last year and is a thrilling cornucopia of mayhem, magic and murder. A yorkshireman who has spent most of his adult life exiled to Texas and now the Czech republic, G. Michael Vasey writes for a living as a leading analyst in the commodity trading and risk management industry. On the side, he writes poems, blogs, books on metaphysics and novels all with a theme of life and the nature of reality. Much of his inspiration comes from meditation and music. He is currently working on The Lord of the Elements – the prequel to The Last Observer – and another on the concept of the Fool in magic. Read his poems: Big Man and Summer is Here.