A note about the author

DB Corey

D.B. Corey didn't begin writing until he was already in his mid-50s. By that time, he already had a wealth of interesting life experiences.

After what he refers to as an uninspiring stint in college, he joined the United States Naval Air Reserve, Circa 1969. Corey was part of the aircrew aboard a Navy P-3 Orion that hunted Russian submarines. Corey stayed in the Navy for 12 years.

In civilian life, he worked in the Information Technology (IT) industry, where he spent the next 35 years specializing in mainframes and large-scale storage arrays.

Sometime in 2005, Corey recalls that he became bored with his job. It was this bout of dissatisfaction that prompted Corey to push himself out of his comfort zone. At that point, the one thing that he simply could not see himself doing was writing a novel. So, of course, that is exactly what he decided to do.

Initially, Corey had a matter-of-fact attitude about the writing process. He recalls telling himself, "How hard can it be? I just have to string eighty-or-so-thousand words together and have them make sense." He even told himself that he could slowly but surely meet the 80,000-word mark by writing segments of his novel each day. However, about one week into his plan, Corey realized that there was more to writing a novel than just stringing words together. He decided to take some night courses and read a bunch of "how to" books.

All throughout this time, Corey kept his day job. Eventually, he finished his first novel. He had to go through 50 (or so) rejections before Chain of Evidence was picked up by Intrigue Publishing. The book was first published in August 2013. His second novel, a vigilante thriller, followed August 2016.

DB can be reached through his email – [email protected]