Gary Glass wrote his first novel over monsoon season in the Himalayas. He has been working for several years on his fifth novel, a mad monstrosity of a book called The Swan of Antares. He has also been an ad writer in Taiwan, a racehorse exerciser in Japan, a registered nurse in Indiana, and has a software engineering patent. He created and ran for ten years a social networking site for readers and writers called BookBalloon. He currently lives with his wife in Valencia, Spain.