Lindsay Brambles was born in Ottawa, Canada in 1959. In 1968 his father, an electrical engineer, signed on with a Canadian subcontractor to CIDA for a job overseas. This began a decade of living and traveling in Pakistan, Iran, and Tanzania. Lindsay also spent time with his parents and siblings in England, Greece, France, and Kenya.After grade three, his formal education was largely through the Ontario Ministry of Education correspondence course—with infrequent forays into traditional schools. He has spent most of his post-academic life in a variety of unrelated jobs, ranging from construction to childcare, all while pursuing a vocation as an artist.Some years ago, Lindsay decided to take the plunge and devote more of his energy to writing. Soon after completing his first YA novel, BECOMING DARKNESS, he got lucky and became a client of literary agent Kelly Sonnack (of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency). After working with Kelly to polish BECOMING DARKNESS, Lindsay signed a contract with Capstone in the fall of 2013. BECOMING DARKNESS will release from Capstone’s YA imprint, Switch Press, on October 1st, 2015.When not engaged in the literary arts, painting (in the artistic sense—although he also has done plenty of the wall and ceiling kind), or earning money in less creative pursuits, Lindsay enjoys cycling, hiking, cross-country skiing, weight-lifting, reading, collecting Gold Key comics and motion picture soundtracks (scores), tinkering with computers, and just about anything that will expand his awareness of the world around him. Passionate about all science, he is especially interested in astronomy, cosmology, and quantum mechanics. (At the top of his bucket list is going into space. Hey, a guy can dream.)He used to fly gliders, once had a run-in with a bull elephant (in Arusha National Park in Tanzania), has deep-sea fished (in the Arabian Sea just off Karachi), dived off coral reefs (in the Indian Ocean, near Dar es Salaam), ridden camels (in Pakistan), wandered through countless archeological ruins (in Greece, Britain, Pakistan, Iran, etc.), used to play a lot of tennis, ran countless ten K races, and has done a whole bunch of stuff he's completely forgotten.Lindsay is at present busily at work on several books, including a sequel and final novel in the Haven trilogy (of which BECOMING DARKNESS is the first in the series).