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A former journalist for the Dallas Times-Herald, the Seattle Times, Associated Press and the Chicago Daily News for more than twenty years after earning a B.A. degree from Pacific University, Thorn Bacon became a versatile magazine writer of more than 500 major articles before and after he wrote his first book. He has been published in Reader's Digest, National Wildlife, Popular Science Monthly, Argosy, True, Flying, Saturday Evening Post and many other periodicals. As an independent assignment writer, Bacon's article writing encompassed such subjects as "Death Does the Twist" (Popular Science Monthly); "The Man Who Reads Nature's Secret Signals" (National Wildlife); "The Dilemma of Heart Transplants" (Family Weekly); "Contact Lenses Anyone Can Wear" (Popular Science Monthly); "A Great Lady of the Sea Retires" (Chicago Daily News Syndicate); "Why Defend the Guilty?" (Lion Magazine by arrangement with Reader's Digest).

Books Written Under My Own Name or Ghost Written as a Collaborator:

Race for the Gold, a revised and enlarged edition of Remme's Ride for the Gold, is scheduled for publication in 2007 by Dark Horse Books, under its "MPress" imprint, and optioned for a movie.

Living with Type 2 Diabetes, Moving Past the Fear, by Gloria Loring and Timothy Gray, D.O. is the latest book Bacon has organized, rewritten and edited as a collaborator. This hard book with a first printing of 30,000 copies and a significant promotion budget was published by Dark Horse Books in April of 2006 and one of the authors, Loring, is scheduled to appear on America's top talk shows.

More recently, Bacon wrote the remarkable biography of Joan Palmateer, Madam Warden, The Woman Who is Changing the Future of Prisons in America.

Several years earlier Bacon was the ghost writer for the author of House Calls, A Rural Doctor's Story, upon which several segments of the popular television show, Marcus Welby,M.D., were based. Subsequently 125,000 copies of the book were sold to a major pharmaceutical house for distribution to primary care physicians in the U.S.

Backworks, The Illustrated Guide to How Your Back Works and What to Do When It Doesn't, was organized and rewritten by Bacon in collaboration with Timothy Gray, D.O. in 1995. It was selected as a book club choice of Prevention Magazine (10,000 copies in two purchases), and Doubleday Health Book Club (5,000 copies). The book is still reordered and stocked by American libraries. About 60,000 copies have been sold. Bacon also was the co-author of Spirit of Champions, BookPartners, 1997. He was the ghost writer and collaborator of the triple book club selection (Doubleday Book Club, Literary Guild Book Club, Mystery Guild Book Club), Savage Shadows, by Eileen Ross, published by New Horizon Press, January 1992. Worldwide sales of the book reached 250,000 copies.

Bacon's previous works are Weather for Sportsmen, (an Outdoor Book Club selection), Motorboating and Sailing Books, Hearst Publication, 1974; he was major contributor to the anthology Reflections of the Future, Ginn and Co., (Xerox Corporation) 1975; and he wrote the original story for the children's favorite LP musical record, Hubert the Rainmaking Hippopotamus, narrated by John Larroquette, Harbor Records, 1972. Presently Bacon is editor of BestSeller Books, Inc., and works with authors to help them with nonfiction book proposals, and he is a manuscript doctor for writing projects that require shaping and sharpening, and a biographer for selected men and women and organizations that inspire readers with their unusual contributions to society.

Ursula Bacon, cofounder and publisher of BestSeller Books, is a seasoned writer and editor. Also, she is the author of Shanghai Diary, published by MPress, an imprint of Darkhorse Books. It was chosen by Barnes and Noble as a "Discover Great New Writers Holiday Selection." Her best selling Shanghai Diary is the dramatic account of Middle European Jews fleeing Nazi Germany to seek refuge in China. A major motion picture based on Shanghai Diary is in the early development stage. A prequel to Shanghai Diary, entitled Eternal Strangers, is scheduled for publication in fall of 2006. Ms. Bacon also is the author of the popular Nervous Hostess Cookbook.