Scott William Carter

Scott William Carter has been a storyteller since the age of seven, when his second grade teacher published Sucked Into Zaxxon, the riveting, six-page adventure novel that recounted the exploits of a couple of kids transported into an arcade game. Although nothing he has written since has quite given him the same level of satisfaction as that single edition book made of cardboard, orange fabric, and clear tape, he has never stopped writing. He has sold over three dozen stories, to such places as Analog, Asimov's, Ellery Queen, Realms of Fantasy, and Weird Tales, as well as to anthologies by Pocket Books and DAW. Recently he has turned his attention to novels – even ones longer than six pages. His first novel, The Last Great Getaway of the Water Balloon Boys, is due out from Simon and Schuster in April 2010.