Sam Payne spent his childhood escaping in stories. With a teddy bear under one arm and a book tightly clasped in the other, Sam ventured to exotic worlds, flew on the back of fantastical creatures and even dabbled in a bit of magic. When reality finally settled in, he decide that writing would allow him to escape in his imagination forever - and so that’s what he did. Sam is a blogger and he is currently working on his first novel.