The author is a cat-lover, a minor league baseball fan, and a voracious reader of all genres. XIANNE, a work of speculative fiction, is his first published novel and is, in his own words, “...as autobiographical as I will ever dare to be.” Mr. Grayson currently lives in the southern United States. He has remained single—and celibate—since the death of his wife of 11 years at the turn of the century.