The Night Not at the Blue Heron Inn is author Len Egan’s premiere novel. Egan has worked as a process improvement consultant globally in a variety of plants, businesses, and organizations. When the pandemic struck in 2020, Egan’s consulting activity was sidelined as clients put off projects, issued quarantines, closed facilities to non-employees and canceled travel as health threats set in. With limited off-site work to do, Egan used the time to complete The Night Not at the Blue Heron Inn which he had worked on periodically but always set aside as paid assignments were scheduled.
A graduate of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with a degree in journalism and a second major equivalent in political science, Egan intended to have a career in media management. Life, however, interrupted that pursuit, and he ended up in corporate communications and later in product engineering work.
When his employer was acquired in 1991, Egan left to become a full-time consultant and practitioner in so-called lean processing based on a system he had learned in Japan from a Toyota affiliate. It remains a successful business in South Carolina.
Egan resides on Cape Cod in Massachusetts with his wife Ann and Bichon Frise, Winston
