A dad who was a bank robber to writing while being a long-haul Ice Road Trucker with MJ Preston

He discusses what it was like growing up with a dad who was a bank robber, knowing his dad tried to murder his Mom, going to school under an assumed name, marrying his love of and becoming a long-haul truck driver including on the worlds longest ice road where he wrote some of his best-selling books in his mind  While I am in a pretty good place, I do look back on a childhood where my father was a wanted bank robber, and both my brother and I had to attend school under an assumed name. Sanity ensued when my mother sent us kids to go stay with an aunt and uncle while she tried to forge a new future with a new man who would step in as stepfather. My father's reaction to this was to kidnap my mother and her boyfriend with the intention of killing them. This was interrupted by a police takedown that would result in a 10-year conviction for armed robbery. With my father incarcerated, my mom moved across the country to a new life and sent for us kids.  We grew up with little. By the time I decided I wanted to get a degree in writing there was no money or support available. Alternately, I met a young woman, at the age of 18. That changed my course and focus. Having a little boy, I decided I need a career, so I enlisted in the military and worked on writing as a sideline.  I served 12 years in the military, was medically released after enduring three leg operations, and went through a pretty rough transition from soldier to civilian. By this time I was a husband and father of three boys. My wife and I did the best we could, and eventually, I signed up to get my transport truck license. I trucked all over Canada and the USA. All the while I began work on finishing my first novel. Much of written on the steering wheel of a transport truck.  I published my horror novel, The Equinox, independently in 2012 and had no plan of writing another, until I was invited to run the world's longest ice road. I went from Long Haul to Ice Road Trucker. In Canada's Northwest Territories, between February and Apr