He was raised all over the place. No respectable town wanted them: Birkenhead; Aintree area of Liverpool; Newton-le-Willows; the Isle of Wight; Mississauga, Ontario; Newark, Granville and Toledo, Ohio.

He joined the USAF at age 18, and went on a whirlwind tour of the deserts and cornfields of America before settling down, sort of: Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX; Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, TX; Chanute AFB, Rantoul, IL; Urbana-Champaign, IL; Indianapolis, IN.

Michael has also visited: Large tracts of Scotland and Wales; Majorca, Spain; Kuwait; most of the continental US; Fort McCoy, WI; Camp Grayling, MI; Camp Ashland, NE; Offutt AFB, NE; Hurlburt Field, FL; Eglin AFB, FL; Tyndall AFB, FL; Hulman Field, Terre Haute; Winnipeg, Manitoba.

With his show schedule he spends lots of time in: Slippery Rock, PA; Chicago, IL; Minneapolis, MN, Columbus, OH; rural Michigan.

His hobbies are much what he does for a living and a few other things: reading, writing, historical re-enactments, forging blades, throwing myself out of aircraft, climbing, hiking, Karate, Kung Fu, shooting, archery, fine liquors, fine food, traveling and ranting at the political, social and moral state of the world.

He met Gail at a science fiction convention in 1991. They had a one-night stand. Then they had another. The second one has lasted 12 years so far. They have the typical 2.3 kids. One of each.

Okay, They have Morrigan, Eric and some cats.

Biography provided by the author, November 2003.