Rod Colvin is the publisher of Addicus Books, an independent publishing house, which he founded in 1994 in Omaha, Nebraska. He has written three previous nonfiction books, Evil Harvest: The True Story of Cult Murder in The American Heartland, Overcoming Prescription Addiction, and The Type 2 Diabetes Handbook: Six Rules for Staying Healthy with Type 2 Diabetes with Dr. James T. Lane.