R.A. McCandless has been a writer both professionally and creatively for nearly two decades and recently became a publisher with Ellysian Press. He was born under a wandering star that led him to a degree in Communication and English with a focus on creative writing. He is the author of the steampunk book THE CLOCKWORK DETECTIVE and urban fantasy TEARS OF HEAVEN and HELL BECOMES HER, short stories "And Into A Watery Grave" in In Shambles, "Grenadiers and Dragon's Fire" in Gears Gadgets and Steam, "Through the Sting of Fairy Smoke" in Nine Heroes: Heroic Fantasy anthology, and "He Who Tells the Tale" and "Holes Full of Dark" in Holes: An Indie Author Anthology. He continues to research and write historical and genre fiction, battle sprinklers, and play with his three boys.