Short:

Michael Fedor, independent author, brings his 20+ yrs of political experience to his writing, making his novels deliciously thrilling and terrifyingly plausible. Michael worked as an effective political strategist in local, state, and federal elections since 2000. Working for candidates from president to dogcatcher, Michael gained an up-close and personal view of the personal costs of pursuing power. Earning both his master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Penn State University, Michael believes the single greatest thing he found at Penn State was his best friend and love of his life, Serena. A multi-year candidate himself, Michael sought local election four times, winning only one race before hanging up his running shoes for good. Michael and Serena will celebrate 20 years of marriage in 2024. They are raising their three boys to have imagination, a healthy love for pizza, and generous souls. Like the main character of Bull Moose, Michael is an avid outdoorsman and a rabid fan of American history.

Long:

Michael Fedor brings 20+ years of political organizing and storytelling to win votes to win a new audience – readers. His style makes his novels and short stories deliciously thrilling and terrifyingly plausible. Readers will wonder where the lines of real life end and political fantasy begin.

Michael began his career as an English teacher, standing on desks (much like John Keating of Dead Poets Society), declaring “Carpe Diem!” and urging adolescents and young adults to “make your lives extraordinary.” Michael secured tenure at Elizabethtown Area School District in Lancaster County, PA, in 2005.

Feeling drawn to an extraordinary quest to bring justice and humanity to public policy, Michael left the classroom 18 years ago to work in politics. Working for candidates from president to dogcatcher, Michael gained an up-close view of the personal costs of pursuing power. A multi-year candidate himself, he won 3 of the 5 offices he sought before hanging up his “running shoes” for good in 2020.

Michael has built a reputation as a gifted strategist and a visionary leader. But inside, there remains an itch to use his gifts for writing to move people and the world with ideas.

Finally, heeding his own advice to “seize the day,” Michael dusted off a novel he wrote but never published in 2004. Like a Jane Goodall of modern politics, he is using his observations and experiences in the wild, wooly worlds of Washington, DC, and state capitols. The first book in a new political thriller series, What It Takes to Kill a Bull Moose (Book 1), is set for release in early 2024.

Michael is concurrently working on the sequel to Bull Moose Book 1. The working title is Tree of Liberty and is planned for an early 2025 release. A nonfiction memoir co-written with Serena Fedor is also underway. It shares a harrowing 33-day experience of survival after unexpected complications from the birth of their third child.

Earning both master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Penn State, Michael says the single greatest takeaway from his alma mater was meeting his best friend and love of his life, Serena, who is a fellow Penn State alumna. Michael and Serena will celebrate 20 years of marriage in 2024. They live in Pennsylvania, raising three boys to have imagination, healthy loves of ice cream, and generous souls.

Like the main character of Bull Moose, Michael is an avid outdoorsman, an avid reader of many types of fiction and nonfiction, and a student of history.

“I consider myself an autodidact – if I do not know how to solve a problem in writing, masonry, plumbing, you name it, I use every resource I can find to teach myself how to create the solution,” says Michael.