Mike Broemmel is an author-lecturer who divides his time between Denver, Colorado, and South Beach, Florida. A native of Colorado, Broemmel actually spent a good deal of his adult life away from the state.

    Broemmel attended Benedictine College in Atchinson, Kansas, graduating summa cum laude with a dual degree in Political Science and Communications. While at Benedictine, Broemmel was president of his class, editor in chief of the college newspaper and it was at this time that he began writing fiction.

    While a college student, Broemmel spent his summers in Washington, D.C. His experiences in the U.S. capitol city began with an internship at a prestigious law firm and carried onward to a position at the White House in the Office of Media Relations and Planning. At this juncture, Broemmel entered into the rough and tumble world of U.S. politics.

    After leaving the White House, Broemmel returned to Kansas and obtained a law degree, graduating with honors. As a lawyer in the late 1980s and 1990s, Broemmel was a staff attorney for the Kansas Court of Appeals, an administrative law judge for the state and ultimately headed his own firm. Along the way, Broemmel served as corporate counsel for a medical manufacturing company with worldwide operations and as a part time juvenile court judge.

    Politically, during the 1980s and 1990s, Broemmel was very active.

    He served as a national, regional and state officer for a number of different political organizations. He was involved in several presidential campaigns and logged many hours in the snows of Iowa during four separate primary campaigns. In 1992, Broemmel himself was the Republican nominee for the state senate from the Topeka area.

    Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Broemmel was extremely active in the not-for-profit realm. He served as the director on the boards of a couple dozen different nonprofit agencies. Included in his efforts was a decade as the chairman of the board of a large, comprehensive human services agency in the Midwest with operations in a four state region. An advocate for the arts, Broemmel served six years as the president of the arts council in the Kansas capitol city and served for a term as the chairman of the statewide Association of Community Arts Agencies for Kansas.

    In recent years, Broemmel has been outspoken about tragic problems that befell his own life in the late 1990s. During this time, he developed chronic alcoholism and severe depression and truly lost control over his personal and professional life. In short, by 1999, Broemmel lost everything.

    Indeed, after spending ten weeks as an inpatient in the Menninger Clinic for treatment of depression, social anxiety disorder, alcoholism and related conditions, Broemmel pleaded guilty to two "white collar" charges arising out of his operation of a business. He ended up spending a thirteen month period of time at a minimum security facility followed by home detention.

    Oddly enough, it was during these dark days that Broemmel saw the publication of his first two books: "The Miller Moth" and "The Shadow Cast." Indeed, by the time Broemmel returned to the "real world" in 2003, he enjoyed notable success as a writer that carries forth to this day.

    In the author's notes to one of his books, Broemmel noted, "brighter days always come." A reporter covering the Broemmel story once noted that if anyone proves the point of this sentiment, it is Mike Broemmel.