Dean served in the Army as a security police officer in S. Korea, and in Germany as a SO prep., subsequently employed for twenty years as a graphic designer.  His hobbies have included fine art, bodybuilding (runner up in the Mr. Midwest Titan Naturals, and trophied in the Mr. Wisconsin State Championship.  His favorite authors are Michel Faber, Neil Gaiman, Dean Koontz, Greg Bear, Tolkein, Verne, Burroughs, Wells, and King.  His favorite and most influential work is The Odyssey by Homer [translated by W.H.D. Rouse]. His three novels include: The Chimera Virus, Symbionts and Mindangels - collectively known as The Chimera Trilogy.  Find more information and convenient email links at:  MilwaukeeAuthors.com and About.me/DeanJ.Forchette, also visit me on Facebook.

Recently, The Chimera Virus has received an honorable mention in the 2008 Atlantic City, NJ Beach Book Festival.

Honorably discharged from the United States Army in 1972, Dean returned to college to receive his degree in commercial graphics specializing in corporate design and media communications focusing on corporate identity. He is the author of The Chimera Virus, his first novel, which is part one of his Techno-mythos, The Chimera Trilogy. Shortly out of college he published numerous poems, two short stories [The Physicist and The Day The Earth Froze Over (a sci-fi spoof). He also wrote two plays [The Physicist, based on his short story, which he co-produced and for which he designed the stage props, and Special Delivery]--both plays were performed in Milwaukee at the Metropole Theatre and The Milw. Little theatre respectively to good and notable reviews.