Nelson Erlick, Author of
To Reclaim A Life
Sometimes you take the road, and sometimes the road takes you.
Dr. Nelson Erlick has had a rather unusual career, ranging from foot surgery to cancer research. While still an undergraduate at the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric (Foot) Medicine, Dr. Erlick twice won the top research award in podiatry. After graduating, Dr. Erlick was a Board Certified Podiatric Surgeon, operating on hundreds of patients. He surgically fixed bunions, hammertoes, heel spurs, and a variety of other foot maladies. But Dr. Erlick has had a lifelong love of writing, both scientific and fiction, which his surgical specialty did not offer. After his surgical practice, Dr. Erlick became Senior Analyst at a medical technology think tank where he assessed highly controversial treatments in cancer. During his career he has worked for both large and small pharmaceutical companies as a Senior Medical Writer, and has twice been Manager of Medical Writing, and twice been a Medical Director. For the last 13 years, he has had his own medical writing company.
He has been charged with tackling a wide range of medical therapeutic areas from A to V, that is, anti‑nausea drugs to vaccines, with a special emphasis on anti-cancer drugs for all types of cancers. He has written hundreds of documents used in clinical pharmaceutical company studies. His writings have included clinical protocols for pharmaceutical studies, the results of those studies, and summaries of drug safety and efficacy. Dr. Erlick has also written dozens of brochures for patients explaining difficult cancer therapies.
To Reclaim A Life, his latest novel, is his debut in literary and fantasy fiction.
Dr. Erlick previously wrote two medical thriller novels published by Forge: GermLine and The Xeno Solution.
He currently resides in Sussex County, Delaware, with his wife.
Unlike so many authors today, I do not believe in writing series of books with the same character (though well-known authors have advised me that it is often the road to commercial success). A novel is the story; the author the storyteller. When a reader is told a story, there is a beginning, a middle, and most important, an end. I am a strong believer that my readers are entitled to the true end of the story, not an episode. My readers deserve nothing less.
I hope you will read and enjoy my labor of love, To Reclaim A Life.
