I came to fiction through a fairly unconventional path. My professional background is in technology and marketing, but I've always been interested in how things work, why they fail, and especially the people who keep them running.
A lot of Beneath the Cloudline grew from that perspective. I was raised near Kodak Park in Rochester, New York, in a skilled-trades family. My father was a plumber and steamfitter, and many of the people around me worked for companies like Kodak, Xerox, and Bausch & Lomb. I grew up around people who built things, repaired things, and usually un more...
