Joshua Merrick

I started making up stories at a very young age, well before kindergarten if you can believe, and it’s only gotten worse since! I have always loved books and have been an avid reader since the age of 3 (mostly because my mother got tired of reading to me and told me I’d better learn how to read for myself). After my elementary years, and the coerced writing assignments we all hated, I became more critical of the books available to me and would think to myself. “I could do better than that,” and I started writing short stories for fun.

I have always loved the arts and creative mediums: painting, leathercrafting, pen and ink drawing, sculpture, poetry, acting, comedy and more recently as an author of works ranging from poems and children's books to action novels. Over the years I have put my hand to a variety of career fields, everything from cowboying to wildlife conservation, construction to private protection, teaching, translating, and many other completely unrelated disciplines (often just for the fun of it but sometimes because even a starving author has to eat occasionally). My college years were much like my work history, an enigmatic experience during which time I found myself drawn to completely unrelated disciplines: science, computer programming, engineering, foreign languages, linguistics, history, theatre, acting, rodeo, wilderness survival, fitness/health... you get the idea. I'd like to think my unique and rich life experience lends itself to my writing.