{"bio": "Dave Preston is a writer and musician, born in North Yorkshire where he lived on a farm and was raised by a mother who worries too much. After studying agriculture, engineering, and computer science he leapt across the ocean to live and work in Canada.\r\n\r\nHe is the author of four books (and contributor to several others) and four plays, as well as hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles and columns. He's an award-winning brewer and winemaker, and also admits to writing poetry.\r\n\r\nWeekends often find him playing guitar and singing in a rock and roll band (though his mother worries that he's getting too old for all this).\r\n\r\nHe lives on Vancouver Island, BC, with his wife and almost too many dogs.", "name": "Dave Preston", "links": [{"url": "https://www.facebook.com/dave.preston.author", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Facebook Author Page"}, {"url": "http://www.flickr.com/people/101664579@N03/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Flickr"}, {"url": "http://www.pinterest.com/onedavepreston/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Pintrest"}, {"url": "http://www.tumblr.com/blog/daveprestonauthor", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Tumblr"}, {"url": "http://www.amazon.com/Dave-Preston/e/B00BI8LK52/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Amazon.com"}, {"url": "http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dave-Preston/e/B00BI8LK52/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Amazon.co.uk"}, {"url": "http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dave-preston/7/146/a5b", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Linkedin"}, {"url": "http://www.davepreston.ca/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Author Website"}, {"url": "https://twitter.com/Dave1Preston", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Twitter"}, {"url": "http://store.kobobooks.com/en-ca/Search?Query=Dave+Preston", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Kobo"}, {"url": "https://ebookstore.sony.com/author/dave-preston_490147", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Sony Bookstore"}, {"url": "http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/home/contributor/Author/Dave-Preston/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}, "title": "Indigo Chapters"}], "personal_name": "Dave Preston", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "photos": [7262155], "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2013-09-20T23:18:24.125246"}, "latest_revision": 5, "key": "/authors/OL294670A", "birth_date": "1956", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "revision": 5}