Wayland Smith is a native Texan who has moved around a lot, presently living in Northern Virginia. His rather unlikely list of jobs includes private investigator, comic book shop owner, ring crew for a circus (then he ran away from the circus and joined home), deputy sheriff, writer, and freelance stagehand. His novels include Tis the Season, In My Brother’s Name and the Wildside, Inc series about superhuman mercenaries. He has also been in numerous anthologies.