Born and raised in Michigan, I have struggled to survive in the unstable field of automotive design and have seen my career, as well as my life, start from scratch more often than any man should. I was married in 2003 and that will always be the best day of my life. I have been a life long Detroit Lions fan and am the owner of Michigan Spider, a blog about the spiders we find in Michigan. In 2003, along with getting married, I learned I had a love for writing fantasy that equaled my love for reading it. I have never dealt with writers block and I do not believe I ever will, for I have more trouble shutting my imagination down, to sleep at night, than I have prodding it back to life again.