Jack M. Thunderbird

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Jack M. Thunderbird is the pen name of Armando Aceituno M., writer, self-educated pedagogist and founder of Omeraldi International, the first digital publishing house of Central America. Born in Honduras, 1960, he has written more than forty works including textbooks, computer manuals, stage plays, poetry, short stories, novels and screenplays. Married in 1980 and divorced in 1991, he currently lives with his second wife and their two children. He is also a motivational speaker, with most of his conferences emphasizing the fact that anyone can achieve whatsoever he or she so desires. As of January 2006, he had conducted more than 600 conferences and workshops on a variety of subjects.

Aceituno is the author of the Real English Power program, the first EFL and ESL home-study system to include digital books. He is said to be currently working on three of his next novels. Many of his poems have been published in the United States and Europe by various publishing houses and the New York-based International Society of Poetry.

Business English and Conversation, one of the few works he has published under his own name, was used at hundreds of schools in Latin America in the mid 1990's. It is still distributed through on-line bookstores, including Amazon.com.