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 He also has two unpublished novels, Slave of Akrona and Magistrate of the Dark Land.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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