Christopher C. Payne was born in January 1967 and grew up in DeSoto, IL. He received his bachelor's degree in finance from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, graduating in 1990. Currently, he lives in San Francisco, CA. In his spare time, he enjoys biking and snowboarding with his three daughters and his fiancée.Payne recently embarked on a literary career with his first novel Duncan's Diary: Birth of a Serial Killer. In his second book, Learning to Cry, Payne detoured from horror and delved into the complicated ties, deep love and ferocious pain between fathers and daughters. Not wanting to be labeled under a specific genre, Payne has completed his third novel, The Gargoyle Prophecies: Part I, The Savior Rises.Payne published all three books through the small press publishing company JournalStone he owns and founded. Look for an anthology of horrors to be published in late October. JournalStone is also in the process of signing a select group of authors and should publish additional works before the end of 2010.