Michael J. Varhola (born September 24, 1966) is an author, publisher, and lecturer. He has written numerous books, games, and articles, and founded game development company and manufacturer Skirmisher Publishing LLC. He also serves as the assistant editor of The Hilltop Reporter, a weekly newspaper located in Texas Hill Country.
Varhola is a 1993 graduate of University of Maryland, College Park, from which he received a B.S. in journalism. Other schools he attended include the Metropolitan State College of Denver, Colorado, and the American University of Paris. He graduated from high school at Carson Long Military Institute in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania.
Varhola has authored or co-authored the non-fiction books Everyday Life During the Civil War (1999), D-Day (2000), Fire and Ice: The Korean War, 1950-1953 (2000), and Shipwrecks and Lost Treasure of the Great Lakes (2007).
Varhola is the co-author of several gaming books, including Experts (2002), Warriors (2003), Tests of Skill (2004), Nuisances (2005), Experts v.3.5 (2005), Nation Builder (2005), H.G. Wells' Little Orc Wars (2007), and Nuisances: Director's Cut (2007).
Varhola published and wrote introductions to editions of H.G. Wells' Little Wars (2004) and Floor Games (2006) and Robert Louis Stevenson's Stevenson at Play.
His current projects include Ghosthunting Maryland, a follow-on to his Ghosthunting Virginia, both visitors' guide to sites that are part of the "America's Haunted Roadtrip" series published by Clerisy Press (Cincinnati, Ohio).
He is also a distant cousin of artist Andy Warhol.
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