Derek Cromwell (writing under Derek Adam), born and raised in Michigan, is a retired Emergency Medical Professional and has been a lover of telling stories his entire life, having made the transition from "filthy liar" to "sexy author" about the same time silver hairs started showing up in his face (and other places.)

In the early days, he attempted to write science fiction and high fantasy, but discovered it was more fun to write about people touching other people's tingle-places (smut is cool.) while mixing in action, explosions, and plenty of WTF moments.

He's also a gamer, gym rat, snow hater (despite living in Michigan), life liver, stunt double for Hulk, and he considers himself to be aggressively unfancy.