David Cook has avoided real jobs for more than ten years by designing games and writing books, which he doesn't consider such a bad deal. He has written four other novels -- including Horselords, Beyond the Moons, and Soldiers of Ice -- and a host of role-playing materials. He has a family, a passion for giant monsters, and other things he's not going to tell you about, except that the micro-zoo is smaller since he wrote one of these books.