The Fifth Man

Author Bio: Randall Ingermanson

Randy Ingermanson was both the class nerd and the class clown. He is the award-winning author of several novels and has been teaching fiction for a number of years. He is known around the world as the “Snowflake Guy” in honor of his “Snowflake method” of designing a novel. Randy earned a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of California at Berkeley and worked for many years in San Diego as a computational physicist. He teaches fiction at writing conferences across the country and sits on the Advisory Board of American Christian Fiction Writers. He also publishes the world’s largest electronic magazine on how to write fiction, the Advanced Fiction Writing E-zine. Randy’s first two novels won Christy Awards, and his second novel, Oxygen, earned a spot on the New York Public Library’s “Books for the Teen Age” list.