Philip Anderson

My name is Phil Anderson, and I like to write stories.

By day I work as an accountant, a decidedly uncreative job. (At least it should be–creative accounting is frowned upon by the IRS.) So in my free time I like to exercise my creativity. My wife is a professional editor, so that’s helpful. And we have four children: three teenage girls and a boy who does well at fulfilling his obligatory role as annoying little brother.

We also volunteer at our church, working with teenagers. Strangely, our daughters seem to be okay with this and for the most part aren’t embarrassed to have us hanging out with their friends. I enjoy it, because really I’m just a big teenager at heart.

Probably because of all this, when I write, my protagonists tend to be teenagers or young adults. This automatically categorizes my work as YA fiction, which I’m okay with. The only difference between YA and adult fiction is the amount of sex, strong language, and gory violence, and I prefer stories without those things anyway.