Richard Allan “Rick” Noble started his career at Canada’s National Newspaper, The Globe and Mail. He moved to the U.S. in 1990 and worked as an executive in digital publishing in various industries before retiring in 2022. Rick has an M.B.A. from the University of Toronto. His first book, King Cotton, was a finalist in both the National INDIE Excellence Awards and Reader’s Favorite INDIES Book of the Year. The third in the series, King Cotton III: Jack & the Ripper, won the gold medal for best historical fiction of 2025 from the Collective of Independent Publishers and Authors.