Blaine Coleman grew up in an extended family in southeastern Virginia, and studied religion and creative writing at Virginia Commonwealth University. He's worked in jobs as disparate as taxi-cab driver (a difficult and stressful job that he wouldn't recommend to anyone), restaurant busboy/dishwasher to retail chain manager to successful business owner and, having worked closely with people of every socio-economic bracket, he's learned that everyone has something of value to teach, and he tries to put those varied experiences to good use in his writing. He now lives in a rural area near Richmon...