Bill LaBrie

Born into a family of travelling lounge musicians, Bill's earliest memories were of the vast American West speeding past the windows of various Detroit sedans from the 1960s. He was homeschooled from 4th grade through high school and took his diploma through correspondence back before they called it "distance learning". He was writing short stories at the age of nine, engineering recordings and writing songs at fourteen, and working two jobs as well as managing a business at twenty after his father -- big-band leader and playwright Lloyd LaBrie -- suddenly died. Bill's a graduate of Thomas More College (Philosophy '94), a certified UNIX admin, a 20-year veteran of Fortune-50 IT departments, a published writer, journalist, poet, and PR flack, a twice-married/twice-divorced sometimes-Catholic single dad, a philanthropist, a songwriter, a terror on two wheels, and most recently, a novelist.