I write stories to frighten and thrill you. If It Bleeds is my latest book, a novella scheduled for release in January 2014 by Nightshade Publications. The Crawlspace is my first book of my writing career, published originally by AuthorHouse in 2009, and now on Fear Of Sleep in 2011. I was born in Los Angeles to a pair of teachers. If you live in the L.A. area, you've probably seen my big brother on TV. I developed a taste for horror by watching Rod Serling's Night Gallery and watching my brother feed mice to his pet snake. My chief literary inspirations are Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Langston Hughes, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Brandon Massey among many others. I've been known to take some unusual pictures with my digital camera, and take in a baseball game or soccer match every once in a while.