Shawn's life mirrors the adventures he likes to write. He has been a skydiver, scuba diver, bungee jumper, and martial artist. Shawn would be the first to tell you, being a husband and father is by far the wildest and most rewarding part of life. Before professionally turning his hand to writing, Shawn was a paratrooper, a pediatric therapist, and an engineer.The first books Shawn remembers reading were the adventures of a horse named Blaze and his youthful owner, Billy, written and illustrated by Clarence William Anderson in the mid-1930's. Billy and Blaze always found themselves in the middle of some crisis and, with courage and heroics, never failed to save the day. Hooked, Shawn tried to write adventure stories of his own. Shawn was four and has been writing ever since.