Melvin is the author of Leopard's Moon, a native of Chicago, Illinois and was raised in Los Vegas. He attended Joe Mackey Elementary School and is a graduate of UNLV with a Bachelor's Degree in History. Melvin M. Carter, since the far-off times of buying Andre Norton's Starman's Son in the sixth grade, has been an enthusiast for the action oriented Science Fiction and Sword and Sorcery stories. He thinks highly of Lieber, and the invention of the differing yet similar universes of Tolkein and Howard and still enjoys reading Homer. He has long believed Emperor Charlemagne would have rode roughs...