Michael James PrestonMichael J. Preston was born in Queens, NY, and spent his formative years in upstate New York. Eschewing normalcy from a very early age, he hitchhiked around the U.S. after high school, playing some of the best street corners and worst bars around, an declaring he would never work for The Man.Starting at nineteen, he spent the next few decades doing the Man's bidding, albeit reluctantly and with a lot of complaints on both sides about his attitude. These days he can be found shouting at his computer screen, chasing small humans and furry critters around, and working on perfecting the family recipe for red sauce. While he has a genetic predisposition to not learn from his mistakes, he has managed to grasp that three days of intermittent simmering are required. He and his occasional collaborator, Neil T. Jacobs, share an affinity for bad puns, although Jacobs tends to prefer ones involving death and dismemberment. Read More Read Less