The Official Line: Michael Kanaly is an author and artist living in Upstate New York. He writes to critical acclaim across a wide spectrum of genres. His work has been called 'provocative and original'...'relentless...impossible to ignore or forget.' Mr. Kanaly's fifth novel, THE LONG ARMS: A Story of Early Humans is now available in hardcover and as a Kindle ebook. The Unofficial Line: Once when I was a kid, maybe eleven or twelve years old, I finished a book and stared out the window at the little town where I grew up. It was late at night, as even then I had a tendency to stay up long after other people were in bed. The moon was shining on silent streets, no cars, no people...and I wondered, looking at the paperback in my hand: Who are the people writing these books? Where are they in the world? How do they do such a thing? Unspoken, of course...because it was much too outrageous a thought to have, even to one's self...was the idea that I might like to grow up to do that kind of work. And now, decades later, much to my surprise and delight, I became one of those people! It just doesn't get any better than that...