Bill Whitley is a native of Brooklyn, NY, and currently lives in Northern Colorado with his wife and two cats. Cursed with multifaceted interests, he has been recognized as an award-winning sculptor and printmaker, and habitually collects (and occasionally restores) obsolete cast-iron printing machinery. Other guilty pleasures include restoring historic houses and making furniture. Writing has always interested him; he sold his first poem to a national magazine at the age of 13, but this is his first foray into the trenches of commercial fiction.