D.B. Martin

Best Selling Author DB Martin - David Brown was born in Newark New Jersey in 1963, the first and only son of Susan Harless of English decent and Arthur Candee, of Italian decent, who had three daughters of his own. After his parents separated when David was just an infant, he was raised by his mother. Parts of his childhood were spent in Bristol Tennessee where his mother resided with her adopted grandmother. Later he moved to Kingston Tennessee where his mother had met and married a Doctor Jerome L. Duggan and he suddenly was thrust into a full size family with three step sisters and a brother, all of who welcomed him in. His mother gave birth to the first of two sisters. Then several years into this they separated and he moved briefly to Knoxville. He spent his remaining youth in Dalton, Georgia, attending City Park Elementary, Dalton Junior High and Dalton and Ringgold High schools, where he worked on the schools newspapers as an artist and writer and designer of the annual covers and school mascots. After graduation he enlisted in the United States Navy, serving his four year term out of Little Creek Virginia designing military flags then transferred to the USS Hermitage LSD-34 spending most of the time in the Mediterranean Sea and Lebanon during the conflicts there. After his stent in the military and college he returned to Calhoun, Georgia for a visit where his mother was now residing and during this visit met a local girl name Nancy Ellen Fowler, who had just graduated from Calhoun, High school the beautiful daughter of John and Nancy Fowler, chicken and beef farmers. He and Ellen were inseparable from the start and have been since they married in 1985. They had a daughter Megan who they lost not long after birth, then their son Joshua David Lee Brown was born in 1988, a musician who currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. After getting married David quickly established himself as a writer, illustrator and designer. David currently is an award winning rug designer and display designer. He writes and illustrates for many magazines and digests under several pen names and does professional design work for many of the fortune 500 companies. He writes and is an author of many genres (fiction novels, Poetry Books, Children's stories and books, and odd stories for many magazines).

David and his wife Ellen currently reside in Georgia. He is an active Member of the Georgia Writer's association, Calhoun Area Writers and The Dalton Area Writers.