Hi, all.
Guess I'll just jump right in.
I grew up in Phoenix.
During my fourth year of medical school I found myself bored looking over the shoulder of a radiologist as he read study after study in a dark room. I found my mind wandering to the future of medicine and suddenly something clicked. I came up with a story idea about an interventional radiologist in the not-too-distant future who stumbles onto the schemes of a killer that uses cutting-edge technology to dispose of victims in ways that mimic medical conditions. I obsessed about it until I had finished the rough draft about a year later. Then I revised it a few times and sent out a couple of to-be-rejected query letters. Getting into med school is a lot easier than publishing a novel.
Querying isn't as fun as writing, so while I was getting rejected I wrote another novel, a middle-grade space sci-fi story about a kid who doesn't realize that he's the weapon his captors plan to use on their suicide mission to their enemy's home planet. I actually got a request for a partial on that one, so that was exciting.
Right now I'm in my last year of residency and I'm drafting another story. The hard thing for me is balancing my family (wife+4 kiddos), work, and hobby time with what can at times be a pretty demanding schedule (I've had to put writing on hold for months at times). The good news is that I've trained in emergency medicine, and ER docs average less than 40 hours a week.
My interests are pretty eclectic. The last few books I've read are State of Fear, The Scarlet Pimpernel, and the first two of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn books (which actually led me to this site). Yeah, I'm kind of all over the place like that.
So that's me. Since you asked. Or did you?
