Michael David Matula is a novelist and short story writer from Chicago. His first novel, Try Not To Burn, was released by Post Mortem Press, and was inspired partly by a brush with death that he experienced as a child. His short fiction has been published in magazines, anthologies and online by DarkFuse, Sci-Fi Short Story Magazine, Sekhmet Press, and Hermit Studio. Michael is currently working on the sequel to Try Not To Burn, when he's not finding new and exciting ways to napalm his free time.Get in touch with him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/michaeldmatula, or find him on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/MichaelDavidMatula