Poison Inside the Walls
KELSEY WROTEN
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Scott W. Baker has loved reading as long as he can remember. He grew up on Encyclopedia Brown, Choose Your Own Adventure novels and Roald Dahl. It was through Piers Anthony’s Xanth novels that he fell in love with genre fiction, a love that led him to the works of Tolkien, Asimov, Card and dozens of others.
Scott was working on his master’s degree in mathematics when the mandibles of the writing bug took hold. He spent the next six months tapping out a young adult novel that was utterly unpublishable. Next, he tried his hand at a time travel short story and sent it to a small press magazine. They bought it for five bucks. There was no turning back. He went on to sell eight more stories to small presses over the next ten years. “Poison Inside the Walls” marks his first professional publication.
Scott is a self-taught writer. He has never attended a workshop or a writing class. He rode into Writers of the Future atop a shelf full of Writer’s Digest books, two online critique groups, a mountain of rejection slips, his memory of high school English and a barrel full of desire.
Tennessee is the only home Scott has really known. He grew up, went to college, earned two degrees and got married all in the Volunteer State. He still lives there with his brilliant wife and beautiful daughter whose adjectives are interchangeable. Scott teaches high school math, loves Hawaiian shirts and has a mild obsession with penguins.
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
Kelsey Elizabeth Wroten was born on April 3, 1991, in Ada, Oklahoma. Not much can be said about her earliest years, other than she was able to speak in full sentences at the young age of nine months.
When she was three, her father, Christopher Wroten, joined the Air Force and Kelsey and her mother, Kelli, moved with him to San Antonio, Texas, to live on the Randolph Air Force Base.
As she coasted through her early school-age years, she became interested in drawing. In fact, so interested was she in drawing, that other girlhood pastimes bored her. When the other girls were playing with little makeup kits, Kelsey was using the tiny lipsticks to draw with.
Later, after her father had served his time in the Air Force, Kelsey and her family moved to Kansas. While in Kansas, she made many achievements in the field of the arts. In the fourth grade, her drawing was chosen out of all the other children’s drawings in Johnson County to be plastered on the side of the county bus.
Right now Kelsey is going to college and is focusing on illustration and has started making comic books. She hopes to continue to make comic books in the future, as it is one of her passions.