Colin F. Barnes is a publisher and writer of science-fiction and techno thrillers and a member of both the British Fantasy Society and the British Science Fiction Association. He honed his craft at the London School of Journalism and the Open University, where he studied English. Colin has run a number of tech-based businesses, worked in rat-infested workshops, and scoured the back streets of London looking for characters and stories--which he found in abundance. His hobbies include building mechs, pondering the end of the world as we know it, and being manipulated by an evil black cat.

You can connect with Colin at www.colinfbarnes.com and www.facebook.com/colinfrancisbarnes, and you can also follow him on Twitter: @ColinFBarnes.