Erik Deckers has been a professional blogger and ghostwriter since 2009. He is the co-author of four social media books and published his first humor novel, Mackinac Island Nation, in 2019. His second, Whither, Utopia, will be released in 2025. Erik has been blogging since 1997, and a newspaper humor columnist since 1994. He was the Spring 2016 writer-in-residence at the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, FL, and is now the president of the organization.