So a bit about me… I was born in Avignon, France and spent my youth in Marseille, Provence by the Mediterranean Sea. After high school and a brief stint in Med School, I left for the US. There I got my B.S. in Biology from the University of Utah and then my PhD in Microbiology from the University of Texas at Austin. I’ve always written a lot, though mostly poetry and short plays. When I wasn’t writing, I was composing songs on the guitar, same same but different I’d say; I’ve always needed a creative output in one form or another. But the long form always seemed scary. Compared to the creative release of poetry and songs that just burst out of you almost on their own, it was a seemingly impossible commitment, one that I’d always shied away from despite regularly entertaining the possibility. Then, an idea came to me while driving a U-haul truck across Texas (I was helping my wife move from Austin to Lubbock). It was a simple thought, about a princess trapped in a sleeping beast and her prince trying to free her; and he needs a word that has never been said to wake the beast up and rescue her. That was it; like I said, simple. That idea stayed dormant for a year and a half. I finished my PhD, moved to Lubbock and one morning, in October 2011, out of the blue I started writing what became the prologue of The WorldMight. The strangest thing is that I didn’t stop writing. And from those first few paragraphs the rest of the novel came to life more or less of its own accord. In my spare time I like to play guitar, take care of the garden and the chickens and occasionally brew beer. I also go through bursts of reading and gaming (not at the same time). We also recently adopted a 5 year old half-boxer, half-lab dog, named Chloe. She’s awesome! Right now I am writing a second novel, BLUR, a very different type of book from The WorldMight, that I hope to finish by the end of 2014 begining 2015. I’m also back college to become a nurse. Life is weird like that.