Douglas Volk

Douglas Volk is a veteran Maine corporate executive who also writes paranormal thrillers that are “skillfully plotted” and “hard to put down” (Maine Sunday Telegram).

The author of the three-volume Morpheus Series (including The Morpheus Conspiracy, The Surgeon’s Curse and the soon to be published Destiny Returns), he is also the recently retired CEO of Volk Packaging Corporation in Biddeford.

One of the most interesting things about Volk’s three-volume series is that he’s so far spent 37 years working on it. He hasn’t filed a report with The Guinness Book of Records yet – but there’s a good chance that he now owns the world record for Most Time Spent Working on Books about Paranormal Killers with the Creepy Ability to Sneak into Other People’s Nightmares and Murder Them While They Sleep!

Another unusual aspect of Volk’s approach to novel writing is the way he uses the tools of business to build his thrillers from the ground up. After first assembling a group of specialists with firsthand knowledge of sleep science, crime scene forensics, psychiatry and law enforcement homicide investigation techniques, Volk relies on this “team approach” throughout the writing/editing process in each of his books.

With the help of the management ability he gained as a longtime corporate executive, he’s able to get the most out of his team . . . which is a key step in crafting crime thrillers that are often praised for their convincingly realistic detail.

Volk’s novels also frequently include another of his major concerns: the painful and deeply disturbing impact of the “betrayal” of U.S. soldiers who fought in Vietnam.

As a U.S. Army veteran himself, he’s passionately committed to telling stories about this tragic betrayal whenever he can.

Douglas Volk lives in both Maine and Florida with his wife of more than 45 years. They have two adult children and five grandchildren.

Says the hardworking author, who’s also published datelined news stories on Cuba and Rwanda for the Boston Globe and Portland Press Herald in recent years: “I learned a long time ago that success depends on getting all the input you can from other people – and on pushing your own creativity “to the max”!