After 20 years working in the Entertainment Industry, Dean took a "5-year hiatus" from the life of a starving artist to explore the world teaching English... 16 years ago (and counting). He channeled his creativity and passion for storytelling into writing, self-publishing his first novel, a thriller, last year. Dean draws inspiration for his stories from a wide variety of writers, from Shakespeare and Steinbeck to Dan Brown and Lee Child, exploring the fears and foibles of humanity.