I was born in Rochester, New York on February 9, 1965 and wrote my first book, entitled "The Dog Catcher is Coming," when I was only six years old. After that it was short story after short story, mostly for my own enjoyment. There were also the "extra episodes" of television shows that I watched, such as "Doctor Who." When I was older, I became a teacher and began to teach a writing workshop. I would write stories as examples to read to the students until finally, one day, they began to suggest that I attempt to have some of them published. That led to the four "Marvin" books. Now, after several years, many thousands of pages of research into the Cold War and about four dozen trips to Gettysburg, I have begun to produce the "Murry Peterson" series of young adult spy novels.