Bowker Biography:
Don Corace

Don Corace applies real-life lessons and wisdom from his 25 years of experiences in numerous entrepreneurial ventures in his corporate thriller set around an oil company fight bankruptcy and a hostile takeover while drilling for offshore oil. Offshore, inspired by his days an on oil field roughneck and buyer/seller of oil and gas leases through Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, also incorporates his experiences as a Real Estate developer, land speculator, band director, influential lobbyist, and the owner of an environmental contracting company.

Prior to his life of oil, real estate, and business, he had vision of being a professional baseball player.

A back injury suffered during his senior year in high school sidelined him from continuing on a baseball All-Star team sponsored by the Los Angeles Dodgers. His ninety mile-per-hour fastball and 16-4 record as a pitcher made a fond memory. His dream of playing professional sports was replaced with the intent to study law.

But after attending benison University, in Ohio, as an English literature major for a few years, he dropped out, traveling throughout the US and Europe with only a backpack. Eventually he returned home, to Pittsburgh, without a degree or a job.

His entrepreneurial venture personality quickly found him in Midland, Texas after reading a Wall Street Journal article about a west Texas oil boom. He drove through a sand storm to obtain a job as a roughneck in the oilfields, circa 1980.

He presently oversees all construction and governmental permitting activity for the waterfront high-rise condominium projects (evaluated at $1.5 billion) of Signature Community, a major real-estate development company.

His days as a roughneck were not easy, especially when his blue-collar coworkers found out he was hired by the company's president and he was a college boy. They needled him, calling Corace a Yankee worm. But he came to be embraced by his oil comrades.

Corace, 47, hopes his writing in the corporate thriller genre will be embraced the way John Grisham's for the legal thriller, Tom Clancy for the military-spy thrillers, and Michael Chrichton for science-medical thrillers.

His adventures have taken him to West Texas, Southern California, and Naples, Florida, where he now resides with his wife of 21 years, Anna, and their three children.

 

 

Email: doncorace@aol.com
Web:  www.doncorace.com
Address:  Emerald Ink Publishing
P. O. Box 2870
Hot Springs, AR 71914
Phone: (501) 538-7459