Bio: Mark Mellon is a novelist who supports his family by working as an attorney for the FDIC. His checkered life includes past experience as a mover, lifeguard/swimming instructor, door-to-door salesman, carpenter's helper, Russian translator, soldier, phone solicitor, collections counselor, and teacher. Mark graduated from the University of Virginia in 1978 with a B.A. and in 1987 from the UVA School of Law. He is married with two children. His wife, Irene Williams, is a successful author in her own right with a number of works published under her own name and the nom de plume Treva Harte. Mark?s short stories have been published in numerous magazines. In addition to The Pirooters, he has also written four other novels, The Empire of the Green, Hammer and Skull, Libertarian in Love, and Napoleon Concerto (respectively a science fiction novel, a historical novel about World War II, a contemporary satire, and a steam-punk alternative history), and a fantasy novella: Escape From Byzantium. A website featuring Mark?s writing may be found at www.mellonwritesagain.com