Robert Kroese

In second grade, Robert Kroese wrote his first novel, the saga of Captain Bill and his spaceship Thee Eagle. This turned out to be the high point of his academic career. After barely graduating from Calvin College in 1992 with a philosophy degree, he was fired from a variety of jobs before moving to California, where he stumbled into software development. As this job required neither punctuality nor a sense of direction, he excelled at it. In 2009, he called upon his extensive knowledge of useless information and love of explosions to write his first novel, Mercury Falls. Since then, he has written many other books, including the Mercury, Saga of the Iron Dragon, Land of Dis, Starship Grifters Universe, and Counterfeit Sorcerer series.