Jim Misko was born and raised in Nebraska during a national and ultimately worldwide depression. He had a wonderful childhood on the plains and learned small town ways during the days when farmers came to town in horses and wagons. In 1949 his family moved to Oregon just as it was growing into a booming state after WWII.

Lewis and Clark College graduated him in 1955 with a degree in Human Development after which he drove a truck, worked on a mink ranch, worked for the YMCA, helped secure Eisenhower’s re-election, and taught secondary school in a small town in Oregon.

In 1960 he discovered real estate.  When an opportunity came to invest in Alaska in 1974 he and his family drove to the Last Frontier where he prospered in real estate and honed his skills in hunting, canoeing, backpacking, and writing.

He has written and published three books about financing real estate outside of the main stream, the latest being HOW TO FINANCE ANY REAL ESTATE ANY PLACE ANY TIME, published by Square One Publishing in New York in 2004.

All his adult life he has written stories and novels but put them on the shelf to craft real estate transactions and publish real estate books. Now he has finished his first full-length novel, FOR WHAT HE COULD BECOME, (372 pages) and has two more right behind it.

Observing a friend who had retired from real estate sales and kept busy running a sailboat through the South China Sea, Misko noted that that adventure required a myriad of problems to be handled daily. His friend had not retired, he had changed the kind of problems he was willing to solve on a daily basis.

After solving real estate problems for forty years, Misko began solving writing problems. After three years of writing, re-writing, and working with the editor, his first novel was published. All pre-publication copies have been sold.

First edition, first printing copies are available from the author, autographed, or inscribed.  

If you purchase a book from any other seller and want an autographed book plate to insert in your copy, Jim is happy to send one to you. Just fill in the form on the order page and e-mail it to him.