Matthew Block lives near San Diego, California. He’s been writing since he was a teenager, but didn’t publish his first work of fiction until he was in his early forties. He is very stubborn. If he were a Shadow Guardian, he would be Tang. He likes to garden, surf, and hike in the mountains.

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