A lifelong resident of coastal Alabama and a career mental health practitioner and executive by trade, Kevin LaPorte realized his aspirations of writing fiction in the arena of comics in mid-life, beginning self-publication of a line of horror comics with partner, artist Amanda Rachels, in 2010. After dabbling in prose for the first time since high school, he felt inspired during the pandemic years of 2020-21 and got serious about it. Baptizer and 10 More Alabama Nightmares is the culmination of a teenager’s dream atop the foundation of a seasoned, self-published writer’s fiction acumen, and it’s just the start for Kevin in the world of prose.