Multicultural romance novelist J. J. Murray, who also uses the pseudonym "H. M. Mann" to write multicultural novels in all genres, grew up in New York (Huntington), New Jersey (Plainfield), Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh), Missouri (St. Louis), Indiana (West Lafayette and College Corners), and Ohio (Marietta), and has now lived more than half his life in southwest Virginia. After college (Marietta (OH))he settled in the Roanoke Valley of Virginia and taught public high school English for twenty years to students who sometimes actually spoke it. J. J. is currently lead teacher in a wilderness residential school for at-risk young men. He and his wife Amy (his muse) enjoy running an editing service and raising their sons, Joshua Malik and Jontae Emmanuel. Readers can visit J. J.'s website at JohnJeffreyMurray.com.