An atypical fantasy story, wherein a teenage Earth boy's contemporary mores are taken to task on an alien world. This is the story of his coming-of-age in unfamiliar surroundings, full of adventure, tragedy, fame, fortune, and romance… and his search for a way home.
Vincent M. Wales grew up in the small town of Brockway in northwestern Pennsylvania. He earned his undergraduate degree in English under the Writing Option at the Pennsylvania State University, where he was a founding member of the Penn State Writers Club and head of its Fiction Writers Group.
During a decade in the suburbs of Philadelphia, he started the Polyamory Awareness and Acceptance Ribbon Campaign, which is devoted to de-stigmatizing the lifestyle of responsible non-monogamy.
While a resident of Utah, he founded the Freethought Society of Northern Utah, an organization dedicated to supporting First Amendment rights and presenting the positive aspects of lifestyles based on reason rather than faith, among other things.
For five years, he taught a very successful series of fiction writing classes in the greater Sacramento area. He is a 3-topic volunteer artisan at AllExperts.com, and a former guide for About.com.
He has served on the Board of Directors of Northern California Publishers & Authors and Atheists & Other Freethinkers. He is a volunteer with Big Brothers/Big Sisters, and former volunteer suicide prevention crisis counselor.
