If you have never read MiSciFi, this is the author to start with. Col Michael Mammay (ret) discusses his career, the reality of writing professionally and MiSciFi.  His novel PLANETSIDE, a military sci-fi mystery, is about an officer who travels to a war zone on a distant planet in search of the missing son of a powerful politician, published in July 2018 from Harper Voyager. The sequel, SPACESIDE, came out in August  2019. He has an informative discussion with host Jim Fausone of Veterans Radio.