Robert Scott McKinnon resides in Great Falls, Montana, with his wife Suzy, adopted Greyhound Jones, and three adopted cats, Angel, Tree and Edgar, and one Tilapia, the Son of Otis. The McKinnons continue to run a summer swim lesson session and swim masters swim meets. In 2009 Robert won the 400 IM in his age group at the Canadian National Masters Swim Meet in Toronto. Robert has a musical comedy "The Tooth Fairy Came to Gopher Gulch" making its way up the ladder; it has been produced as a play, then as a recital, then as a musical comedy on the University level and now it is slated for production by a rural high school drama club and summer and fall presentations by an adult regional theatre group. The Captain's Dog, a dog's view of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, is McKinnon's sixth novel: Moose, Bruce and the Goose (Bobbs Merrill), To Yellowstone: A Journey Home (Holt, Rinehart and Winston), Jesse's Hound, (serialized 9 installments, National Greyhound Association), Down Under Jones (Iowa Greyhound Association), and The Haunted Aquarium Castle (serialized 13 installments ... Freshwater and Marine Aquarium). He has plays and musicals to his credit on the University level and a two time Voice of America Haloween radio/computer play presentation "Cerberus." He has played the banjo professionally for 40 years and is a retired high school English teacher.