TONY RUSSO was born in Queens, New York and loves playing around with history. First published in Aboriginal Science Fiction magazine, Mr. Russo was a contributing author for a number of articles and fictional pieces for West End Games, LLC, license holder of the official STAR WARS roleplaying game system. One of his stories for West End Games made it into TALES FROM THE EMPIRE, a collection of STAR WARS short fiction published by Bantam Books. He took 2nd prize in the 2003 New Century Writer Awards for Novels judged by Ray Bradbury. His book, ZAK CORBIN: MASTER OF MACHINES was a semi-finalist in the 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards for Young Adult fiction. In September 2012, his science-fiction detective adventure, THE PRINCE OF TROUBLE, will be available on jukepopserials.com, a website dedicated to revitalizing serial fiction.