The award-winning author, J. Andrew Shelley, has lived a life in America's extremes.

He grew up in Tennessee and adulted in Massachusetts. Trained in social sciences, he spent decades in the worlds of new tech and people-first process.

Along the way he has experienced the passage of dear family as a grandson, son, brother, cousin, and son-in-law. Many departures were needlessly tumultuous. His latest books, the Estate series, were birthed out of that turmoil.

If you could share your experience with the Estate books—how people can best use them, what you like, what you wish were different—he would thank you from here to the moon. Most sincerely.