About Cameron Mathews

Cameron Mathews was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1976, where he lived until moving to Texas in 1994 after graduation from Vestavia Hills High School. He received a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Baylor University in 1998. After college, Cameron worked for several years in the management consulting industry before switching into telecommunications.

He began writing poetry in early high school with several of his friends, creating an absurd sub-genre of poems that were collected in The Continuing Evolution of the First Volume of Truck Poetry. His additional poems were gathered in an unpublished compilation entitled Life Sucks and then You Die in Rebellion: A Collection of Poems and Such. Additional poems that Cameron has written have been made available online and may eventually be compiled in another collection.

In the late 1990s, Cameron wrote several technical articles for the online webzine WebMonkey on the Cold Fusion programming language, which were republished in hundreds of locations and several languages around the Internet. Since then, his technical writing has tapered off, but it did provide a starting point to Cameron's desire to write and be published.

In 2004, Cameron was introduced by a friend to NaNoWriMo, an internet-based group of individuals dedicated to producing novels during the month of November in a furious, fast-paced 30 days of fiction. Since then, he has completed a novel every November and is currently in the process of editing and rewriting two of them to improve the draft status. NaNoWriMo certainly provided the incentive for Cameron to begin writing after quite a break, and has successfully provided a framework in which he has created several works of fiction.

Cameron currently lives in Lewisville, Texas with his wife, Meredith, and two dogs. When he's not writing, he enjoys landscaping, playing music, and brewing craft beers.  He's a member of the North Texas Home Brewers Association and has had some of his beer recognized in competition.