Gary A. Ballard

At the age of eleven, Mr. Ballard began creating his own fictional worlds and inhabiting those worlds with eccentric characters. As an artist, graphic designer, web site designer, musician and author, he has spent decades enumerating a unique evolving vision of an absurd universe. His cyberpunk series called The Bridge Chronicles starring the amoral fixer of future Los Angeles, Artemis Bridge has six novels, one standalone novel, and a short story collection. The Bridge Chronicles in turn is one slice of cohesive universe that began as a pen-and-paper roleplaying game. Gary has completed a series of novellas based on the Cthulhu Mythos made famous by H.P. Lovecraft called The Stepping Stone Cycle. In addition, he has written two unsold screenplays based on the Bridge Chronicles series, and plans to adapt The Stepping Stone Cycle for television.

Mr. Ballard currently lives with his dog and cat in Mississippi's capitol, Jackson, where he continues to write, blog, compose music, photograph, and play video games.

Mr. Ballard's latest published project is a standalone novel set in the Bridge Chronicles universe called Hiss Whistle Dead, that originally began life as a Kindle Vella series. He is also working on a historical novel set in his hometown of Jackson, Mississippi.