Clayton Emery has been a blacksmith, dishwasher, schoolteacher in
Australia, carpenter, zookeeper, farmhand, land surveyor, volunteer
firefighter, award-winning technical writer, and other things.  He lives in
New Hampshire with his doctor wife and hulking son, spends his time
restoring a 1767 house, gardens, and stone walls,  and dashing around in a
kilt reenacting the American Revolution.  He counts among his
accomplishments once taking tea with the Sheriff of Nottingham.