[b]Wil Mara[/b] has been publishing books for the last 25 years. He began with nonfiction for school libraries, moved into children's fiction by ghostwriting five of the popular [i]‘Boxcar Children Mysteries,'[/i] then into adult fiction with his 2005 disaster thriller, [i]Wave[/i], which won the New Jersey Notable Book Award. The next disaster novel, [i]The Gemini Virus[/i], was released in October 2012 to rave reviews by critics and public alike. Wil also spent 20 years as an editor, working for Harcourt-Brace, Prentice Hall, and others. For more information, visit Wil at www.wilmara.com.