William D Collins was born in 1970 in Youngstown, Ohio. He has been writing since he was ten years old but somehow got distracted from publishing for 30 years. He joined the Marine Corps when he was 17 and spent his eighteenth birthday in bootcamp at Parris Island. He served in Panama and Desert Storm and wrote stories by hand in his little notebook even then. Since getting out, he has worked many different jobs including being a (not very good) Real Estate Agent, a (miserable) restaurant manager, and a (pretty happy )Private Investigator in the Washington DC area. He now lives in a tiny town on Colorado's Western Slopes with his wife and two cats. He escaped from the Washington DC rat race and retreated to the mountains to pursue the writing career he always dreamed of. "A Girl and her Cat" is his first novel but will be just the first of many. For more information check out his website at http://www.WilliamDCollins.com.