Born and raised in a very haunted house on the North Shore of Massachusetts, I developed an early interest in horror stories and world mythology. In high school, under the pall of bipolar I encountered the Divine Comedy and the Great Gatsby, two works that would change my way of seeing and writing forever. I started my first novel then, a journey through Hell and into Heaven called City of Circles. Ponderous, perhaps a tad pretentious, depressing as hell and nigh unreadable, I was slave to it for years. After leaving college with my girlfriend and coming to Central Pennsylvania, I saw more...