D. Eric Maikranz

D. Eric Maikranz is an American novelist whose debut novel. He is also a software executive and former software programmer. D. Eric Maikranz was born in Evansville, Indiana, and grew up in rural southern Indiana before moving to west Texas and then New Mexico. He worked as an industrial welder before attending and graduating from the University of Colorado with a degree in Russian Language and Literature. He worked in high finance, in high tech, and was a nightclub bouncer and radio talk show host before writing for The Denver Post. He lived in Rome for two years where he worked as a tour guide, authored two Italy guidebooks, and was a correspondent for United Press International. In 2001, he joined the enterprise business software firm JD Edwards as a programmer. He was later a software director for PeopleSoft, and an executive for Oracle Corporation. Maikranz began writing fiction and articles in the late 1990s and continued writing in the early 2000s with two Italian travel guides for publisher Marshall Cavendish. He self-published his debut novel in 2009. The novel has been picked up by Paramount for TV and Blackstone Pub.