Adam Santo

My childhood started in Buena Park, California - with a unobscured view of Knott's Berry Farm from my bedroom window - but I've yet to grow up. Because I moved frequently, not one particular place would have influenced me. What I can say is reading became an essential part of my life, and in turn influenced my writing.
I became an avid reader in Elementary School; books like 'See Spot Run' were not enough to quench my literary thirst. It wasn't until Junior High School that I found a desire to write. A teacher had been working on a thesis paper for her master's degree that she showed to the English class. What intrigued me, and why she showed it off so proudly, was her ability to accomplish the professor's odd rule for her assignment (I don't remember how many pages she had to write, but it was more than two) - no one sentence could began with the same word. This had my head swimming about what someone could accomplish if they set their minds to it.
But, as teens normally do, I rebelled in High School when they placed me in an advanced English class. If I had a chance to do it all over I would sit through class analyzing poems like El Dorado and enjoy it. Years went by before I picked up a pen to scribble any ideas down.

My earliest intentions for writing began as a hobby. There were not any set goals or deadlines to meet. I wrote for the pure fun of it and to see if I could build worlds like some of the authors I enjoyed reading. Becoming an indie author never crossed my mind. I can't say I actively sought out agents or traditional publisher for my manuscripts, but there is one person that helped push me forward.
Becoming an author falls in my wife's lap. She read numerous stories I'd written over the years and suggested I publish a book. Yes, I owe it to her for pushing me in a direction I never knew I wanted to go. That's how Temperature: Dead and Rising ended up as my first publish novel.