Long Biography

Born way back in 1971 in Southbridge, Massachusetts on September 11 -- yes, that's right: My thirtieth birthday was 9/11/01.

I grew up in a little town in Maryland called Owings Mills, until I was around ten, at which point my parents got divorced and I moved to an even smaller town out in the Maryland countryside. I hated it there. Hated every minute of it. Plotted my escape almost from day one.

At age 17, I finally broke out and swore I'd never go back. I fled to Yale, where I spent four years allegedly studying. It was nowhere near as difficult as I anticipated, probably because I didn't really avail myself of all the opportunities there. I pretty much stuck to my classes and eschewed extracurricular activities, which meant I had a lot of time for writing. I spent a semester studying comic books as an American mythology (my thesis was flawed, I see in retrospect, but I had fun, and so did my advisor) and another semester working on a novel entitled Inframan, or The Coming of the Unpotent God, to which I will someday return.

Graduated in 1993 with a degree in English and I’ve heard all the jokes, thank you very much.

In 1994, I ended up settling down...in that little, rural Maryland town I'd hated so much and spent so much time trying to escape. Irony, thy name is Real Life.

Funny thing about that: as soon as I didn't have to live there, the place didn't seem all that bad. I lived there for eight years before moving a little further north, just a couple of miles past the Mason-Dixon Line in southern Pennsylvania.

Nowadays, though, I call the desert my home, having moved out West to be closer to my brother and my niece.

The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy & Goth Girl is my first (published) novel. Boy Toy followed in 2007. Next up...Hero-Type.