US author who began to publish work of genre interest with "Zen-Coding" for Nova Express in 1989, most of his later short fiction appearing as by Mark A Garland. With Charles G McGraw, he wrote a Science Fantasy adventure tale, Dorella (1992), set on a world where magic and Technology intersect; and the Demon Blade fantasy adventure sequence beginning with Demon Blade (1994). Also with McGraw, he published a Tie to the Star Trek universe: Star Trek Voyager #7: Ghost of a Chance (1996); alone, he wrote Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Trial by Error (1997), and a solo fantasy, Sword of the Prophets (1997).
