Author Othen Donald Dale Cummings was raised in the countryside on the outskirts of a small town called Pryor Creek, where he spent his childhood happily doing daily chores and playing outdoors on a little farm nestled in a valley and surrounded by rolling hills. Some of his favorite memories growing up are hiking to his friends' houses, sledding down the big hill after a deep winter snow, riding horses until dusk, and even helping to look after a family of rescue tigers and escorting them to his small country school. The latter being quite an experience for a young farm boy! Later in life he started care-giving for his elderly mom and it was during that time he began his adventure into publishing. Othen currently has published many different genres of literature under a variety of pen names and also has a line of coloring books, notebooks, and sketchbooks.