Jim Reid

I am a 70-year-old building contractor and gay, bleeding-heart liberal living in San Francisco. I get up at 3 a.m. every morning, take a five-minute cold shower, make coffee, and write for three hours. Then I go to work, using detailed blueprints to gut older houses and rebuild them from the foundation up. This book is a blueprint for gutting the many tragically flawed socioeconomic systems we use to manage our home-Earth. 
I've listened to 50 to a hundred digital audiobooks each year for the last 30 years, covering such topics as history, philosophy, religion, politics, biographies, fiction, and science. 
I know too much, all the wonderful and despicable things that we humans do to each other and to the other innocent animal species who share this amazing planet with us. Our immeasurable cruelty to humans and animals depressed me, and I considered killing myself in 2012. Instead, I began writing about benevolent aliens who come to Earth and fix all the things that dishearten and infuriate me. It's a long list.

Sincerely,

Jim Reid