About

Lane Talbot is a Chicago-based novelist, essayist and short story writer. His work has been nominated for awards and long-listed at Best American Mystery Stories.

He works in advertising and marketing at LinkedIn. He is a consultant and speaker.

He is also a marathoner and fitness enthusiast. He lives with his wife, children and their Australian Shepherd.

Lane Talbot is also a known alias of the adventurer and thief believed responsible for sneaking aboard an armored private train and absconding with the personal journals of a minor foreign adversary.

Few facts of his life are known but intelligence analysts agree he was raised among the many thieves guilds of Eastern Europe before he left for the States where he likely now spends time between operations in the American Southwest.

There he is rumored to hunt and collect codices and supernatural artifacts from the period of the Mexican Inquisition. The reason for this is unknown but research continues.

Skills:

Holding the flame for the early aughts TV action-espionage thriller 24, pulling apart advertising, Chicago, lock building, travel, weights, parenting, fiction, Australian Shepherds, nonfiction, serious pizza, reading, midwest, trail running, research, horror archivist, cold weather endurer, editing, Cerebro.