Joe Montes:  

Life I have been quite busy since high school, and I am fairly satisfied that I have lived my life by that whole road-less-traveled thing. Ever since I can remember, I have wanted to be a writer. And since every great writer, it seems, was at one time a nomad (research), I guess you could say that I've sort of followed in that tradition. In the last twenty-eight years, I have served in the army, lived all across the country, written and directed over ten plays, worked every kind of job imaginable, studied in England, got a degree, tried to learn guitar, sold the guitar, got married, got divorced, worked as a deckhand on a commercial fishing boat (to forget the marriage), got married again (to forget the fishing-boat experience), tried the corporate thing with a Corporate 100 company (man, that was stupid), and rounded it off nicely with a novel, which, oddly enough, reads rather like non-fiction. I've been working on a second novel the last couple of years - even though I haven't done anything with the first one - and now that I have a job worth going to, working late at night on a book that might never be read seems to get harder and harder. But, I do love it so. I still reside in Las Vegas with my wife Michelle, my baby boy Jack (he's three years old and the cutest kid I've ever seen) and...Expand for more