M. J. Rucinski is a writer and a teacher, and his students are some of his best inspiration. Their strengths, ambitions, humor, and brilliance appear in many of the characters he writes, and having taught through a pandemic, he learned the resilience of both his students and his school. His first book, Threads of Aethercode, is a fantasy story, but the settings and characters would never be the same without his day-to-day interactions at school with his students.

Debut author M. J. Rucinski talks about Threads of Aethercode, a YA Fantasy book in which AI can talk to dogs