Charles Christopher Lunda was born on June 24th, 1963 in Houston Texas, the first child of Charles and Patsy Lunda. Growing up in the suburbs of New Orleans from the age of one through high school, he later attended Baylor University where he studied Theater, Journalism and English Literature. Following Baylor he continued his studies at North Texas State University where he focused on the study of playwriting and screenwriting collaborating on several stage adaptations. It is this training that makes his novels intensely cinematic. After university he served in the United States Coast Guard aboard a 378 foot high endurance cutter spending time in the Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska and the South Pacific. Having developed a love for the sea, his corporate life was spent as a marine surveyor which afforded him the opportunity to travel extensively visiting 26 countries. He has lived in New Orleans, Dallas, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Singapore. Now residing in the small beach community of Gulf Shores, Alabama with his wife Christina Kourt, he has ventured away from his playwriting past and ventured into the wonderful world of novels. Represented by an agent and published by the independent imprint East Village Press his current project The Voodoo Prophecies has been well received and he is currently working on Book 2 of the trilogy 'The Voodoo Prophecies and the Rise of the Nephilim.' - written by Joyce Howard