Doug Sharp

Doug Sharp was a successful computer game designer and developer who created two hit games-ChipWits and The King of Chicago—in the mid-80’s before epilepsy forced him to stop programming in 1988. In 1991, when his health allowed him to, he dove back into programming and coded and managed in Microsoft Research’s Virtual Worlds Group, where his title was Demo God. A recurrence of epilepsy in 1997 disabled him.

Doug attended Clarion West Writer’s Workshop in 2002, which helped launch his writing career. His health deteriorated as his seizures damaged his brain, inflicting him with Central Pain Syndrome and cognitive loss. He moved to a remote Wisconsin lakeshore cabin in 2004 and spent 8 years living in the wild before moving to wondrous Vashon Island, WA in 2012.

Doug is co-founder and Board member of the Central Pain Syndrome Foundation. Doug donates 15% of profits from the Hel’s Bet Series to the CPSF.