CL Monroe developed a love for story when he read Jurassic Park at the beginning of fourth grade. However, shortly afterwards, he was groomed for life as an attorney. So it was that he put a burgeoning passion for story aside to devote himself to the serious task of preparing for, and eventually being, a lawyer. In the process he spent tens of thousands of hours writing tens of millions of words, nearly all of them dry and dull, and if they were especially effective, lulling people to sleep.

 

Then, when he was firmly established as a master of the written word in its dreariest form, he was given The Lord of the Rings by a friend. And there, at Bilbo’s eleventy-first birthday party, the old fire, first discovered on Isla Nublar, sparked back to life. Now he writes things that are--hopefully--not useful for curing insomnia.