Stephen Andrew Salamon was raised in Chicago. He started writing at 12, finished his first 100-page story at 14, wrote his first epic novel at 17 and was published by 21. He graduated from Columbia College, studying fiction writing and screenwriting. He enjoys challenging sentence structure, word placement and metaphors, believing that the certain placement of words can invoke emotions that are what he truly wants the reader to feel. Happy words when placed in a certain way in a sentence, can make a person feel frustrated, worried or simply 'happy'. "When a writer's subconscious is opened fully, anything can happen!"