Mark R. Vickers resides in Florida with his multi-talented wife, a homicidal tabby who is a Grendel to the local lizardry, a Siamese with an Oxford English-sized vocabulary, and a towering oak tree that howls and dances madly during hurricanes. He is the author of the literary fantasy novel The Tollkeeper, and he blogs about how ancient myths still shape our modern lives at thetollkeeper.com.