Greg
Urbach was born in the San Fernando Valley, a Yankee occupied province
of the City of Los Angeles. He attended various suburban schools
in Burbank and North Hollywood before getting a bacheor's degree
from California State University, Northridge, in Urban Studies and
History. As a campus activist, he coordinated programs for the Red
Cross Blood Drive, Non-Partisan Voter Registration, and the 1976
California Political Forum. His earliest published writing was for
the CSUN Monday Reporter.
In the early 1980s, he discovered an interest in writing a novel,
having an idea for a science fiction story called Awaken to Starlight.
Sadly, having attended public schools his whole life, he was completely
uneducated and
needed to learn new writing skills, which took about fifteen years.
He spent several semesters taking night classes at Los Angeles Valley
College where he wrote two plays, a screenplay, and several short
stories. His first novel, Tranquilityís End, was written
in 1986 but no publishers were willing to read it. He later wrote
Tranquilityís Heirs and Tranquilityís Child, completing
a trilogy.
To make a living, Greg has worked as an associate editor for a newspaper
syndicate, managed video stores, did notary work for a UPS Store,
and ran a warehouse for a special effects company. He has also taught
chess, been
a census worker, and occasionally does professional grading of vintage
comic books. His hobbies include collecting books and watching old
movies. His writing in influenced by Robert Heinlein, C.S. Forester,
Jean Auel, and Sharon Green.
In the late 1990s Greg began writing more novels in the Waters of
the Moon series, producing Tranquility Besieged, Tranquility In
Darkness, Tranquility Down, Tranquility Divided, and in 2007, Tranquility
Under the Eagles. In 2002, knowing his books had been circulating
among publishers and agents for fifteen years, he decided to self-publish
them rather than let the ideas be stolen by unscrupulous persons
in the publishing industry. He would still like to see his books
published by mainstream media someday, preferably in his lifetime.
Greg is currently working on the final book of the Waters of the
Moon series, tentatively titled Tranquilityís Last Stand.
He also has two unpublished novels, Slave of Akrona and Magistrate
of the Dark Land. He hopes to begin work next year on a new book,
Tenacious: Exile of the Legion, and is developing an alternate history
project with a western
theme. He lives in the San Fernando Valley with his wife, Kwei-lin
Lum, whose paper doll creations can be viewed at Flatdoll.com.
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