Spearman was born and raised in Hahira, GA...a small town 28 miles north of the Florida state line. Most of his adult life was spent in and around Atlanta. In 2005 he moved to China. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and knows "enough Cantonese and Thai to get in trouble." He began writing full time in late 2014 and published his first novel Carnies and Wildcats in July 2015. In 2017 he finished his second novel Obadiah: A Ghost's Story. He is now working on a sequel for Carnies and Wildcats and his next novel, a series based on a time traveling gunslinger, soldier of fortune, and detective titled T. H. E. Knight.