A mild-mannered software engineer during the day, at night Mike dons the mantle of award-winning author of heroic adventure fiction. 

Inspired to create his own stories at a young age by the glorious cartoons and comic books of the 1980s, he graduated to the world of role playing games and SF and fantasy novels as a teenager. Together with his wife, Shell, he created the Ascension Epoch, an open-content, shared universe for adventure fiction based on the public domain. Besides his work on Ascension Epoch, he has contributed material for Eden Studios' "Conspiracy X" and dabbled in the indy RPG scene with several original settings like "Undertow" and "Eternal Empire."