Growing up in Southern California, Joshua Dagon was always atypical. He didn't surf, he hated the beach, and he was less athletically adroit than most coma patients. A voracious reader, JD instead found comfort and enrichment in fiction. He grew up reading authors such as Stephen King, Anne Rice, James Clavell, J.R.R. Tolkien, Bram Stoker, and Harper Lee. He was never a popular child and so spent most of his intellectual resources finding ways to avoid being beaten up by roving gangs of surf Nazis who were mortally threatened by guys with no tan and the ability more...
