Born and raised in Southern California and works as a technical writer, Sacha Valero grew up in the age of Star Wars, the Space Shuttle program, and cheesy heavy metal ballads. A voracious reader of the Choose Your Own Adventure series, he moved on to the likes of Tolkien, Steven King, and Clive Barker before being bitten by the science fiction bug. He draws inspiration from the writings of Issac Asimov, Andre Norton, Robert Heinlein, and Arthur C. Clark. Sacha Valero lives in Southern CA where he caters to the beck and call of a German Shepherd with a bit too many human characteristics.